[FM Discuss] The first non-FM book created with Booki?

[adam]

that is pretty cool!

On 02/02/2012 01:51 AM, James Simmons wrote:
> We have speculated that people might use Booki for books other than
> FLOSS Manuals.  This would include novels, plays, memoirs, poetry, and
> everything else that is not a manual.  I even suggested this use of
> Booki in my own FLOSS Manual E-Book Enlightenment, where I
> demonstrated how children with XO laptops (as are used in the One
> Laptop Per Child project) might use Booki to create their own e-books
> and printed books.  I was not aware of anyone actually doing this with
> Booki.
>
> Until today.
>
> An author who calls himself "Bhakta Jim" (to spare his friends and
> family embarrassment) has used Booki to write his personal memoir and
> published it as an e-book on the Kindle Store:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Life-Times-Bhakta-Jim-ebook/dp/B00730HE54/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_t_2
>
> I understand that the author will be making his book free today and
> tomorrow.  After that the price goes up to $2.99.  There may even be a
> Create Space version of the book at some point, created using OBJAVI.
> While nobody has approached the author about making it an Oprah's Book
> Club selection or a major motion picture yet, stranger things have
> happened.
>
> I hope you all will celebrate what may well be an important milestone
> for Booki by checking this out!
>
> James Simmons
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