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
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From: adam hyde <adam(a)flossmanuals.net>
Date: Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:44 PM
Subject: [Textbook-l] FLOSS Manuals Bookstore
To: Wikimedia textbook discussion <textbook-l(a)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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Adam Hyde
Founder FLOSS Manuals
http://www.flossmanuals.net
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