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
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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On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 14:54 -0400, Andrew Whitworth wrote:
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?
I think FLOSS Manuals and Wikibooks have very similar aims so I'd be keen to make some sort of collaboration.
Will Wikibooks be producing Books of the collection? I thought this would make the WMF a publisher and hence liable for any content...a position I was sure, having seen Oliver Hugot present at Wikimania, was one the foundation wished to avoid?
(also, while i remember. i wrote to oliver and he has agreed to do a presentation to the Wikibooks community as we discussed some time ago ie. a pre-recorded presentation and irc/skype session to ask questions after the presentation has been online for a while...his presentation will be on the topic of legal definition of 'publisher' and what this means to the WMF and others...its also very interesting to FLOSS Manuals, so I will draw in some from the FM community to participate)
adam
--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
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On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 3:02 PM, adam hyde adam@flossmanuals.net wrote:
Will Wikibooks be producing Books of the collection? I thought this would make the WMF a publisher and hence liable for any content...a position I was sure, having seen Oliver Hugot present at Wikimania, was one the foundation wished to avoid?
No, and this is a good distinction to make every now and again: Wikibooks and the WMF won't be doing any publishing, but individual Wikibookians (or other well-wishers) may very well publish books from Wikibooks. In fact, several books from Wikibooks are already published and available for sale from Amazon (Go to amazon.com and do a search for "Wikibooks").
I and a small group of other interested Wikibookians could get together, pick books that are in particularly good condition, and see to it that they were passed on to a willing publisher. Or, another group with similar aims is welcome to take content from Wikibooks (following all licensing guidelines) and publish them without our input. In fact, if any groups wanted to do this, I think it would be acceptable to post limited advertisements for the books on Wikibooks, assuming our community agreed with it.
(also, while i remember. i wrote to oliver and he has agreed to do a presentation to the Wikibooks community as we discussed some time ago ie. a pre-recorded presentation and irc/skype session to ask questions after the presentation has been online for a while...his presentation will be on the topic of legal definition of 'publisher' and what this means to the WMF and others...its also very interesting to FLOSS Manuals, so I will draw in some from the FM community to participate)
Yes, I remember this, but I don't seem to have any of the details anymore. When would such a meeting be held? What organizational help do you need?
--Andrew Whitworth
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