Caryl, You can review a book even if you haven't bought it. You just need an account on Amazon. And while it is true that three sales had a dramatic effect on the book's ranking, I would expect diminishing returns to kick in pretty soon.
> P.S. What are the chances of getting the Spanish version on Amazon? Pretty good, I'd say. All you would need to do is generate an EPUB from Booki, make some simple modifications to it (adding Table Of Contents and cover image), and run the free kindlegen program against it. I gave the details on how to do this in a previous email, and I made the same information into a post for the Booki Blog that is being reviewed. I may also put the information as a chapter in "E-Book Enlightenment". Even though Sugar does not support reading MOBI files you can use Booki on the XO, so having students publish their work in the Kindle Store is doable, especially with one of the newer XOs that support both Sugar and GNOME. We'd have to wait until we had a definitive version of the book, and the lead translator should probably do the publishing (and get whatever profits there may be). Amazon lets you list multiple contributors on the page for the book, so if there were multiple translators they could all be listed. I could be listed as an author even if I didn't submit the book. It would be a good idea to post PDF, EPUB, and MOBI of the Spanish version on the Internet Archive at the same time as the Kindle Store. What would help other than reviews would be to get more FLOSS Manuals on Amazon. That way anyone finding one of them would get recommended to read the rest of them. Some of the FLOSS Manuals are pretty well known, like the CiviCRM manual and the one on Circumventing Internet Censorship. It would make sense to get those books on the Kindle and all the other FLOSS Manuals would benefit too. Thanks, James Simmons _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
