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

[Caroline Meeks]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:

> 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?
>

Going along the same lines but in a different direction then Tomeu....This
teacher asked for a simple book creation tool for kids.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TRcKP1MJQs

Might not be hard to create a Turtle Art Template that prints in a way that
lets you fold the printed page to create a book.


> 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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