Got this message today on foundation-l. Seems like this "bookstore" might make a cool gadget for people to use on Wikibooks if somebody wants to create it. Also, maybe we could get into some kind of partnership here where our books would be available for purchase by the same mechanism, with the same or a similar gadget. Any thoughts?
--Andrew Whitworth
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: adam hyde adam@flossmanuals.net Date: Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:44 PM Subject: [Textbook-l] FLOSS Manuals Bookstore To: Wikimedia textbook discussion textbook-l@lists.wikimedia.org
hi,
on the level of wiki-book projects, we have just launched the FLOSS Manuals bookstore...you can see it here: http://www.flossmanuals.net
and details on how to embed it here: http://www.flossmanuals.net/bookstore
Its an 'embeddable' bookstore -designed to fit on the sidebar of your site, and it advertises all books produced by the FLOSS Manuals community using the FM platform. We have some tools that enable print-on-demand print-ready PDF generation from the wiki. The format looks lovely...you can see an example of the PDF copy here: http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_64/3865000/3865224/9/print/g1g1_final.pdf
There is a photo of the books someone brought here: http://olpclearningclub.org/2008/10/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/2925910346/
adam
-- Adam Hyde Founder FLOSS Manuals http://www.flossmanuals.net
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