[IAEP] New chapters of "Reading And Leading With Sugar" could use a review

[James Simmons]

Rebecca,

One thing that FLOSS Manuals does is allow you to submit a cover image
so hardbound copies can be printed on demand using Lulu.com or
Amazon's service.  I wasn't planning on submitting a cover image for
this book, but I could.  I did submit one for "Make Your Own Sugar
Activities!" but it's been months now and nobody from FLOSS Manuals
has made the cover yet.  I'll bug them about it again in a couple of
weeks.

If you DO bind and print copies of this be aware that there are TWO
methods of creating PDFs of FLOSS Manuals.  The one built into the
site is not the best way.  The one you want to use is at
http://objavi.flossmanuals.net.  That creates a really beautiful PDF
that you can submit to Lulu.com.

FLOSS Manuals has some new software called Booki that they may use to
create a FLOSS Manuals-style site for books in general.  If they do it
could be a fantastic resource for educators wanting to create free
textbooks.

I also read on the Project Gutenberg website that while currently only
books 1923 and before are in the public domain in 2019 pretty much
everything between 1923 and the 1970's goes into the public domain,
all at once.

I'm finding the subject of e-books a lot more interesting than I
thought it would be when I began this book.  In the next few years our
ideas about publishing could change drastically, and I think for the
better.

James Simmons


On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Rebecca Hargrave Malamud
<webchick at invisible.net> wrote:
> Hi, James -
>
> I will give this a close read today - it looks like a great start. I know it
> will be really fun structuring a summer program around this ...
>
> I plan to have the RDC mentees create their own books - but it might be
> interesting to create some physical books of the manual itself during the
> program using our facilities and bookbinding equipment. I often use the
> physical manifestations of books to raise awareness for my program (I
> generally ask for a donation at cost - it is more a publicity vehicle than
> anything else).
>
> I do know we are missing some relevant PDF applications. We should
> definitely add Scribus here:
>
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/ReadingandSugar/MakingPDFs
>
> (I can add it after I give the whole manual a read)
>
> Rebecca Malamud
> --------------------------------------
> http://ruraldesigncollective.org
>
>
>
> James Simmons wrote:
>>
>> I've begun writing chapters on making your own e-books and I'd like
>> some feedback.  I don't consider these chapters to be finished.  I've
>> made a decent attempt at creating a first e-book (from scanning page
>> images from The Big Aviation Book For Boys) and I'm working on a
>> second book (an lavishly illustrated adaption of The Arabian Nights
>> for young readers) where I hope to avoid the mistakes I made on the
>> first one.  I'm in the position of writing a manual on a subject I'm
>> still learning, which is kind of like how the last book I did ended
>> up.
>>
>> The URL is:
>>
>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/ReadingandSugar/Introduction
>>
>> When I have these chapters finished I'll start work on publishing and
>> distributing ebooks, which will cover such things as making
>> contributions to Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive as well as
>> Sayamindu's Book Server project, plus other alternatives as I think of
>> them.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> James Simmons
>>
>>
>>
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