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

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Caroline Meeks <solutiongrove at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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.

http://web.media.mit.edu/~walter/MAS-A12/book.jpg is such a template.
It lets you make an 8-page book with no need for any staples or
binding--just one cut to the paper.

-walter

>>
>> 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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