On 2/7/2010 7:18 AM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Gary Schnabl wrote:
On 2/7/2010 6:52 AM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Gary Schnabl wrote:
On 2/6/2010 9:30 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
I have uploaded a PDF of the full Getting Started book (v3.2
edition) to the OOoAuthors website and to the OOo Docs wiki.
This PDF is watermarked "Free eBook Edition" in an attempt to
discourage other people from copying and selling it. (Thanks to
Gabriel Gurley for the pointer to how to do this using Adobe
Acrobat Pro.)
I'm working on reformatting the book for the printed edition.
--Jean
I betcha they will sell them anyway... It bemuses me that some
gullible people will actually pay for documentation for a free
office suite without first checking to see if any free docs for it
exist.
Lots of people want a printed book and are willing to pay for one
even if a free PDF exists. It's not necessarily anything to do with
gullibility. I just want to discourage other people from selling our
books at a profit but not contributing to the community... or at
least make it less easy for them to do so.
--Jean
How long before they get ePubbed?
Good question. Definitely not this month, as I'll be away from
Wednesday until 1st March. And I think getting the other books updated
and published in some form has a higher priority on my time than doing
what sounds like a lot more fun: learning about ePub.
--Jean
That could be a good revenue source for some freelancers for a few weeks
until some really easy PDF to ePub converter comes out that churns out
ePubs automatically.
I wonder what is wrong with my computer? I get e-mail, VoIP, but no
browsers work the past 1/4 hour. There's always something.
But I will sleep first and then try the better computer if it's still
bad later.
Gary
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