On Saturday, March 15, 2014 04:08:59 PM you wrote: > > Jean, > > > > Is it possible to get Amazon.com to stock hard/soft copy and Google Books > > to stock soft copy (they already support PDF in addition to epub.) It > > would would not be bad to see if Barnes and Noble as well as Kobo would > > also stock the soft copy for their Ebook Readers as well. This would > > certainly assist with in reaching new users particularly if they are > > provided for free and would provide some great advertising as well. > > > > I know Amazon and Google have programs to self publish but I have not > > actually tried them out though. > > > > Is anyone interested is publishing them in epub or mobi? I would like to > > learn how to format and produce epub so if someone knows how and wants to > > lead this then I am willing to port some chapters! > > > > Tim > > Tim, > As I have said on previous occasions when this topic came up: yes, it > is possible to get printed books and ebooks (in several formats) to be > stocked by Amazon and others. Lulu (where we publish our books) will > take care of it for us (previously there was a fee, but now there is > not). There is some extra work involved that sounds easy but is not. I > have begun taking steps to do this for the v4.2 books. > > Amazon's self-publishing program (I don't know about Google's) has > cost, taxation, and other problems for us that I don't have the energy > to describe in detail right now. I personally will not consider using > them, but others can pursue this if they wish to. > > We can, of course, produce our own ebooks (epub, mobi, other formats) > from chapters and/or full books with or without Lulu's help, and > publish them on our own wiki and website along with the ODTs and PDFs > for users to download at no cost. > > Dan Lewis has done some work converting files to epub. He has said > that the latest version of Calibre does a much better and easier job > of converting our files than earlier versions did. I don't think Dan > is available to lead an effort to do major conversions, but that's for > him to say. > > IMO we need to make some changes to our template to make the > conversion process easier and give better results. I have documented > some of this somewhere. You might be able to find it by searching the > archives for this list, or it might be on the wiki. IIRC, mainly the > changes involve getting rid of our custom style names wherever > possible and using the built-in style names instead. > > This change in style names is part of the plan to produce a new > template for our books, but that plan keeps getting stalled for > various reasons. Also, work on the template over the past few years > seems to have focused on changes that affect mainly the appearance of > the resulting PDFs & printed books and not on changes that affect the > conversion process to other formats. > > --Jean
Jean, I just setup a Google Books Partner account there are no directly payable fees associated with distributing content. Their is a profit splitting agreement for sales, but the Partner (In this case me) has full control to establish price) Free! as well as establish all DRM functions (None). The partner also has control for configuring advertising as well but they are required and Google does pay profit sharing for advertisement usages. Google currently supports, PDF, epub as well as scanned hard copy. Currently their are no LibreoOffice Titles available on Google Play Books. If their is no current LibreOffice Official initiative to establish a partner account and distribute the content and no license restriction preventing me from doing so then I will go ahead and distribute the manuals through my account for the low price of Free, with DRM disabled of course. There are some optimization requirements/recommendations as well as caveats related to hyperlinks. located here: https://support.google.com/books/partner/answer/107073?hl=en&ref_topic=3238502 I will start working on optimizing the manuals and brand the optimized PDF versions as The Google Edition, Please let me know if this is something LibreOffice would or would not like to take on officially at this time. If it is not something you are interested in taking on I will start submitting the latest manuals "Non-Google Play Edition of course tomorrow. Tim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
