[IAEP] R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)

[Tomeu Vizoso]

2009/11/17 Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com>:
> It's an excellent point; after all, Mingoville
> http://www.mingoville.com/ based in Denmark I believe claims over 1
> million users, 100+ activities for children to practice English.
>
> But there's another facet: dominant languages such as English,
> Spanish, French, put pressure on minority languages. Sugar has a role
> to play supporting many languages, not just in the interface, but in
> content. There have been suggestions in the past that we position
> Sugar as a great way to learn English, and indeed it can be
> (especially in a connected environment), but I feel English should not
> be privileged over local languages.

Can we make Sugar a good platform for publishing e-books? Anybody has
already thought of what it would take?

Regards,

Tomeu

> My concern is the timing... Sebastian is under pressure for a December
> 8th launch and will need help collating books.
>
> The Blueberry launch is also threatened by sugaronastick.com, which as
> long as it is up will create confusion.
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Yama Ploskonka <yamaplos at gmail.com> wrote:
>> sorry to keep the off-topic on topic, :-), but in my experience the
>> possibility to access stuff in English is one of the biggest calls for Sugar
>> use, especially maybe in non-English places.
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Carlo Falciola <cfalciola at yahoo.it> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sebastian,
>>> really  have absolutely no issue regarding  the provider.
>>> Once I realized that in that site there weren't non EN titles  you I just
>>> made a  quick Google-search for multilingual ebooks sites.
>>>
>>> My point is limitated to suggesting to evaluate the opportunity to put a
>>> little sample in more that one language.
>>>
>>> ciao carlo
>>>
>>> --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian at when.com> ha scritto:
>>>
>>> > Da: Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian at when.com>
>>> > Oggetto: Re: R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)
>>> > A: "Carlo Falciola" <cfalciola at yahoo.it>
>>> > Cc: "iaep" <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>>> > Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 16:22
>>> > Yes, actually, I was maybe a bit too
>>> > quick with this. :)
>>> >
>>> > This e-mail was supposed to be about discussing good sample
>>> > titles, not
>>> > about announcing anything with regard to the book provider
>>> > we were
>>> > using. Anyway, thanks for the link! I'll look into it...
>>> >
>>> > Cheers,
>>> > --Sebastian
>>> >
>>> > Carlo Falciola wrote:
>>> > > I dont know (yet, Ill check soon) about quality of
>>> > ePub version, but (http://manybooks.net/) seems to have
>>> > books from  several different languages...
>>> > >   Maybe one out of a selection of
>>> > languages would make sense...
>>> > >
>>> > > ciao carlo
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas<sebastian at when.com>
>>> > ha scritto:
>>> > >
>>> > >> Da: Sebastian Dziallas<sebastian at when.com>
>>> > >> Oggetto: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick
>>> > (Blueberry)
>>> > >> A: "SoaS"<soas at lists.sugarlabs.org>,
>>> > "iaep"<iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>>> > >> Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 15:36
>>> > >> Hi all,
>>> > >>
>>> > >> as you may know, we're going to ship some selected
>>> > e-books
>>> > >> in the
>>> > >> Journal of the Blueberry release. For providing
>>> > >> high-quality e-books
>>> > >> instead of simple texts (as well as fo technical
>>> > >> simplicity), we're
>>> > >> going to use e-books from epubBooks
>>> > (www.epubbooks.com)!
>>> > >>
>>> > >> Right now, I've just included Alice in Wonderland
>>> > (which
>>> > >> comes with nice
>>> > >> images in this edition), but I encourage everybody
>>> > to go
>>> > >> through the
>>> > >> catalog on that website and to point out
>>> > favorites.
>>> > >>
>>> > >> Thanks to Sayamindu for pointing to that site! :)
>>> > >>
>>> > >> --Sebastian
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>>>
>>>
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