[SoaS] R: Please help suggest illustrated eBooks for Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry launch

[Carlo Falciola]

For italian:
http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/c/collodi/pinocchio/epub/collodi_pinocchio.epub

ciao carlo


--- Gio 26/11/09, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> Da: Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com>
> Oggetto: [SoaS] Please help suggest illustrated eBooks for Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry launch
> A: "iaep" <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>, "Sugar Labs Marketing" <marketing at lists.sugarlabs.org>, "Sugar-Labs Mailing lists" <soas at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> Data: Giovedì 26 novembre 2009, 00:02
> 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
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