Jean Hollis Weber a écrit :
An exciting announcment!
Well, *I* think it's exciting. :-)
Printed copies of the OOoAuthors books "Getting Started with OOo2.0"
and "OOo2.0 Writer Guide" are now available for purchase through
Lulu.com.
Getting Started: http://www.lulu.com/content/177729
Writer Guide: http://www.lulu.com/content/180466
I reformatted these books for the more common computer book size of
6x9 inches for the printed version. The interiors are printed in
black-and-white. Linda Worthington did the covers and all the work of
setting this up on Lulu. Yay, Linda!
The Getting Started book does not include all of the chapters in the
PDF, because I wanted to keep the printed version short and
inexpensive. PDFs of the extra chapters can be downloaded from the
OOoAuthors or Docs websites, as can the entire book (PDFs are still
formatted for US letter page size). Those chapters are:
* Working with the Gallery
* Getting Started with Macros
* Using Fontwork: Creating Graphical Text Art Objects
* Creating Web Pages: Saving Documents as HTML Files
The printed version of the Writer Guide includes all of the chapters
currently available in the PDF version.
When you go to the Lulu pages for these books, you will notice they
are listed as published by Friends of OpenDocument Inc. This is a
group that I (Jean) formed in Australia for the purpose of handling
money raised from sales of OOoAuthors books and other items, some of
them for other groups. (For example, Friends of OpenDocument Inc also
provides the OpenDocument Fellowship's website.) For more info, see
http://friendsofopendocument.org/
Money raised from sales of OOoAuthors books will be spent as decided
by the contributors to those books. At some point (when we actually
have some money in the account), we'll need to work out just how to
handle these decisions, but that's a topic for another thread, and
probably another day.
Linda and I are looking forward to getting some of the other books
finished so we can publish them in printed form too. That's a hint! ;-)
Cheers, Jean
Hi Jean,
Yes it's an exciting announcement :-)
I'm very happy to see all the work of OOoAuthors be available as
printed copies.
Thanks Jean for all your work to make this happen. You rock.
Congratulations.
Thanks to Linda for the guides covers.
I really like the fact of having printed copies, it's why I started
(unfortunatly didn't had time to do much until now) the French
translation of the OOoAuthors docs.
I'd like to give some printed copies to my family and friends who start
with OOo after giving them a lot of advertisment about OOo.
I think that a lot of people would prefer to have the instructions
written on the paper rather than on a screen.
Now, about the fact of selling the printed books, I remember very well
that we talked about that a long time ago, unfortunatly I'm not sure
about the exact period.
Cheers,
Agnes
