On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 8:44 AM, James Simmons <nices...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you've read any of my FLOSS Manual "E-Book Enlightenment" you know > that I've been preparing free e-books and contributing them to the > Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg Canada, and Distributed > Proofreaders Canada. Yesterday I reached an important milestone: my > very first donation to Project Gutenberg has been accepted. > > You can check it out here: > > http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36378/36378-h/36378-h.htm > > It was a very challenging book to create. I had to deal with Greek > transliteration, footnotes, umlauts, ligatures, accents of both > persuasions, United States copyright laws, old pages that did not OCR > very well, and 90 illustrations, many of them spicy. > > Project Gutenberg is the very finest source of free e-books there is. > It is The Show. It is white balls in the practice field. It is women > with long legs and brains. It is deep, soft, wet kisses that last for > three days. It is the Navy Seals of free e-book repositories. Just > getting a copyright clearance for your book is something to be proud > of.
Congratulations!!! I can tell you are *passionate* about this :-) cheers, Sameer > > Soon there will also be a hand-crafted version of this book in the > Kindle Store. (The Kindle version that PG produces is generated from > the HTML and is not optimized to look good on the KIndle). I would > expect that lavishly illustrated translations of randy French novels > will sell better than Make Your Own Sugar Activities! did. > > Regrettably, Ancient Manners is not suitable reading for young > children. Their teachers should enjoy it. > > James Simmons > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
