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Jean,
Is it possible to get Amazon.com to stock hard/soft copy and
Google
Books
to stock soft copy (they already support PDF in addition to
epub.)
It
would would not be bad to see if Barnes and Noble as well as
Kobo
would
also stock the soft copy for their Ebook Readers as well. This
would
certainly assist with in reaching new users particularly if
they
are
provided for free and would provide some great advertising as
well.
I know Amazon and Google have programs to self publish but I
have
not
actually tried them out though.
Is anyone interested is publishing them in epub or mobi? I
would
like
to
learn how to format and produce epub so if someone knows how
and
wants
to
lead this then I am willing to port some chapters!
Tim
Tim,
As I have said on previous occasions when this topic came up:
yes,
it
is possible to get printed books and ebooks (in several formats)
to
be
stocked by Amazon and others. Lulu (where we publish our books)
will
take care of it for us (previously there was a fee, but now
there
is
not). There is some extra work involved that sounds easy but is
not.
I
have begun taking steps to do this for the v4.2 books.
Amazon's self-publishing program (I don't know about Google's)
has
cost, taxation, and other problems for us that I don't have the
energy
to describe in detail right now. I personally will not consider
using
them, but others can pursue this if they wish to.
We can, of course, produce our own ebooks (epub, mobi, other
formats)
from chapters and/or full books with or without Lulu's help, and
publish them on our own wiki and website along with the ODTs and
PDFs
for users to download at no cost.
Dan Lewis has done some work converting files to epub. He has
said
that the latest version of Calibre does a much better and easier
job
of converting our files than earlier versions did. I don't think
Dan
is available to lead an effort to do major conversions, but
that's
for
him to say.
ev
IMO we need to make some changes to our template to make the
conversion process easier and give better results. I have
documented
some of this somewhere. You might be able to find it by
searching
the
archives for this list, or it might be on the wiki. IIRC, mainly
the
changes involve getting rid of our custom style names wherever
possible and using the built-in style names instead.
This change in style names is part of the plan to produce a new
template for our books, but that plan keeps getting stalled for
various reasons. Also, work on the template over the past few
years
seems to have focused on changes that affect mainly the
appearance
of
the resulting PDFs printed books and not on changes that
affect
the
conversion process to other formats.
--Jean
Jean,
I decided I wanted to go ahead and try out The Google Books
Partnership
Publishing, I went ahead and published The LibreOffice 4.0 Getting
Started
Guide in its official non-modified state to Google Books and
Google
Play
for the low price of FREE with no DRM. Google Is currently
processing
it
for full text search/indexing it is set to become available
immediately
upon finishing and it will be available in PDF download format
from
Google
Play/Books as well. I was also able to advertise the printed
version
from
Lulu as well.
I will send out the URL for it when I goes online, The process is
pretty
fast and relatively easy.
I will look at publishing the rest of them after I see how this
one
turns
out.
Also the partnership Publishing accounts can be configured for
multiple
administrators to ease management/updates etc.
Tim
Jean,
I attempted to upload the .ODT version hoping to make it an
additional
