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. > ev > 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 decided I wanted to go ahead and try out The Google Books Partnership Publishing, I went ahead and published The LibreOffice 4.0 Getting Started Guide in its official non-modified state to Google Books and Google Play for the low price of FREE with no DRM. Google Is currently processing it for full text search/indexing it is set to become available immediately upon finishing and it will be available in PDF download format from Google Play/Books as well. I was also able to advertise the printed version from Lulu as well. I will send out the URL for it when I goes online, The process is pretty fast and relatively easy. I will look at publishing the rest of them after I see how this one turns out. Also the partnership Publishing accounts can be configured for multiple administrators to ease management/updates etc. 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
