Emmanuel Engelhart <[email protected]> writes: > On 06/07/2012 04:01 PM, Bastien Guerry wrote: >> Emmanuel Engelhart<[email protected]> writes: >> >>> http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.fr/2012/06/wmdevdays-finished-book-source-then.html >>> * http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.fr/2012/06/publishing-final-versions.html >>> >>> I share his concern: we should IMO elaborate a plan/agenda to setup a >>> publication platform (something like itunes for example)... and you? >> >> I do too. >> >> I'm following another french public domain ebooks project: >> >> http://www.ebooksgratuits.com >> >> The leader of the project regularily sends announcements on the >> mailing list about finished books -- these announcements are my >> favorite readings as they contain small summaries, a list of >> contributors who accomplished the work, and other useful notes. > > ebooksgratuits.com approach is IMO more compatible with our aims than > Amazon. But the solution is really too primitive : for example, no > localization of the UI, a show-stopper for us.
Yes. I didn't really think of _using_ ebooksgratuits.com as a publication platform -- just thought setting up a simple newsletter would help. There is the international GLAM newsletter, the Research newsletter, having a "Wikisource" newsletter featuring interesting (finished) books would be awesome, even more with some editorial content. -- Bastien _______________________________________________ Offline-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l
