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
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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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