[Sugar-devel] "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" is on Lulu

[James Simmons]

Christoph,

Normally books on Lulu are proofed by the author before being sold.
For some reason the book was put on the store right away.  When I got
my own copy I found that the type was too small to read, and the font
for the code samples was even worse.  We therefore temporarily removed
it from the store until I could prepare a new PDF with larger fonts.
This is more work than you might think because I have to wrap the
lines of all the code samples to make them fit on the page with a 12
point Courier font, and there were other issues too.

I've been working steadily on fixing the code samples and fooling
around with stylesheet options to make the next version of the book
worth having.  I have also gotten a talented artist to design a new
cover illustration.  When the end result of all this is finished the
book will be available again.  Just be happy you didn't get one like I
got!

Thanks for your patience.

James Simmons


On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Christoph Derndorfer
<christoph.derndorfer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:35 AM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> My FLOSS Manual "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" made it to Lulu.com:
>>
>>
>> http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/make-your-own-sugar-activities/12047878
>>
>> FLOSS Manuals get the profits for book sales, not me, but I thought
>> you'd all like to know it's available.
>
> James,
>
> is it possible that the book isn't available via Lulu anymore?
>
> I just wanted to purchase it because shipping to the US is so much cheaper
> than to Europe but I can't seem to find it on the store...
>
> Thanks,
> Christoph
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