so the books could be uploaded to wikibooks, or wikimedia commons, one could produce an epub or openzim file out of it for the people not having a kindle? sounds great to me ...
rupert. On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 8:26 AM, James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Have come across a collection of basic college textbooks that appear to be > more or less based on text from Wikipedia. There are 21 of them. The > company claims that they are being used by more than 2 million students. > > They are under a CC BY SA license and if you follow the links seen here > http://books.google.ca/books?id=7avpAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA2058 they do eventually > attribute Wikipedia. > > They are being offered for free on amazon.com > http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Boudless > and > are being sold for $19.99 on their website. https://www.boundless.com/ > > So the question is should we have a response? I think this could generate > position press for our movement. Attribution could be better (I would > consider theirs to be borderline). Additionally should we be adding this > textbooks to Wikiversity or Wikibooks to make sure they stay free available? > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > > The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine > www.opentextbookofmedicine.com > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>