Dnia Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:13:15 +0200, Robert Scott Horning napisał(a):
I have no idea what an "official, registered publisher" might be, but I don't think it is as difficult as you or others may percieve here.
Perhaps we should just try and ask Wikimedia Foundation to act as a "publisher" and register in Google Books. It might be possible that having ISBN number for each book is not obligatory and there is a way to make Wikibooks texts available in Google Books.
Frankly at this point, I don't see why Google couldn't be made aware of the WikiPress project for de.wikipedia, as they do have ISBN numbers (for admittedly German langauge content). And you can order any of those books from Amazon.com or any other retail bookstore if you are interested in it.
As far as I understand, publishers are supposed to register in Google Books and submit their books - not on the other side. I think we should just inform WikiPress about Google Books, in case they don't know about this project.