[IAEP] Please help suggest illustrated eBooks for Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry launch

[Jim Simmons]

Sean,

The Internet Archive has some really beautiful children's books.
Unfortunately, their EPUB offerings are full of typos and the books in
that format look anemic in comparison to the DJVU versions.  You might
consider using DJVU instead of EPUB for this reason.

Among the most beautiful books are "Abroad" and "Jack and the Giants".
 There are ilustrated Oz books as well.

For languages other than English, Jules Verne might be a good author
to try.  The English versions of his works on IA are often
illustrated, so it's a good possibility that the French originals
would be as well, and they definitely have them.

OLE Nepal has its own E-Putashkaya (sp?) website where they have books
in Nepali for downloading.  The ones I've seen are illustrated at
aimed at very young readers.

IA is definitely the place to get illustrated ebooks.  Their website
has animated thumbnails of the books as well as lists of the most
popular downloads so you might be better off using the website to find
them rather than Get IA Books.  Though if you want to sell the idea of
getting lots of books easily Get IA Books (or its heir apparent Get
Books) might be a good thing to include in Blueberry.

James Simmons

> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:02:43 +0100
> From: Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com>
> Subject: [IAEP] Please help suggest illustrated eBooks for Sugar on a
>        Stick   v2 Blueberry launch
>
> Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry will be launched at the Netbook World
> Summit in Paris on December 8th and Walter will open the summit with
> the keynote presentation!
>
> Sebastian and other members of the SoaS team are working hard on
> finalizing the master this weekend.
>
> In this holiday season with $250 Kindles and $299 Nooks and $$$
> eBooks, we want to talk about Sugar's great eBook tools as well as
> open access eBooks - that eBooks shouldn't be only pricey DRM'd
> downloads for pricey gadgets.
>
> To do this, we want to "populate" Blueberry's Journal with a small
> number of eBooks. Small, so the Journal is not overstuffed; eBooks
> there will help new Sugar users to understand the Journal.
>
> We do feel though that it is important that of the handful of eBooks,
> not all should be in English. We won't have room for every language
> (that needs to wait for a later version of Sugar or SoaS which could
> have filter logic by language). But an eBook in half a dozen
> languages, with instructions for parents and teachers where to find
> others, will effectively demonstrate Sugar's potential as an eBook
> reader solution. Books written in the native language will be
> preferable to translations of books originally written in English -
> we'd like to show that Sugar content can be localized and not merely
> translated.
>
> Please suggest eBooks! ideally, an illustrated eBook in EPUB format
> (although we may be able to convert from other formats by hand since
> there will only be a few). Send links!
>
> If it's possible before Sunday, it would be fabulous if we could
> include an eBook created by children in the classroom! Even a
> collection of scans could be fairly easily "bound" into an eBook file.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Sean
> Sugar Labs Marketing Coordinator