I would seriosly doubt the ad thing. Publishers would quit in a minute. And amazon requires that ads be stripped from subscription material.
Over in gnome I proposed connecting planet gnome to lindle and we are looking into that now. There's lots og gnome kindle users. I also sent info to )aloki to look into doing the same for Planet openSUSE. And hopefully we will get that going as well. Bryen Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: Helen <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:26:09 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [opensuse-marketing] The openSUSE Handbook proposal How hard is it to convert to multiple e-reader formats including PDF? E-readers have not yet taken off in Australia and I wouldn't buy a Kindle anyway. (It's only a matter of time before Amazon starts sticking advertising at random through your books.) Other handheld devices - 7 inch tablet/pads, Nintendo DSI XL..... Helen >> We can offer it as a free book or charge a small publishing fee through >> Amazon and funnel a few bucks into the future openSUSE Foundation. >> >> The potential opportunities abound here! >> >> Bryen >> > > P.S. When I say Kindle or Nook, I mean in their book formats, not > sending to it as a PDF. For two reasons 1) PDF documents incur a > charge to the user and 2) PDF formatting on Kindle REAAAAAALLLY sucks > and is not very accessible for low-vison users. So we would do a > disservice not publishing in native format that allows all users to be > able to read it. > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
