Right now the FLOSS Manual "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" is available on the FM website, as a bound and printed book from Lulu, as a free PDF download from Lulu, and in PDF, EPUB, and MOBI formats on the Internet Archive. I'd like to add the Kindle Store to this list. I would price it at 99 cents, and in the Introduction I would add some text explaining where the book could be downloaded for free, so if someone got a free preview from the Kindle store he would not be required to pay the 99 cents unless he wished to. The profits from these purchases, if there are any, would go to me. If Oprah chooses the book as one of her Favorite Things I might be persuaded to share the windfall with Sugar Labs and/or FLOSS Manuals. Don't count on this happening.
The Amazon Kindle uses the MOBI format, and it will be a fair amount of work for me to convert the EPUB I can get from Booki to what Amazon requires. Among other things I need to create a cover image and a Table Of Contents with links, plus I need to clean up the page formatting. I will not change the licensing of the book or use DRM, but I WILL put my name on the cover image and other places as appropriate. I will use a new cover image because the picture used on the bound and printed book was given to me by the artist with the understanding that I wouldn't be making any money on the book. Right now if you look "One Laptop Per Child" on the Kindle Store you get three items returned. If what I propose to do works well it might be a good idea to get other FLOSS Manuals, especially OLPC and Sugar-related titles, on there as well. James Simmons _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
