Re: Fwd: FLOSS Manuals Bookstore

On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 14:54 -0400, Andrew Whitworth wrote:
> Got this message today on foundation-l. Seems like this "bookstore"
> might make a cool gadget for people to use on Wikibooks if somebody
> wants to create it. Also, maybe we could get into some kind of
> partnership here where our books would be available for purchase by
> the same mechanism, with the same or a similar gadget. Any thoughts?

I think FLOSS Manuals and Wikibooks have very similar aims so I'd be
keen to make some sort of collaboration. 

Will Wikibooks be producing Books of the collection? I thought this
would make the WMF a publisher and hence liable for any content...a
position I was sure, having seen Oliver Hugot present at Wikimania, was
one the foundation wished to avoid?

(also, while i remember. i wrote to oliver and he has agreed to do a
presentation to the Wikibooks community as we discussed some time ago
ie. a pre-recorded presentation and irc/skype session to ask questions
after the presentation has been online for a while...his presentation
will be on the topic of legal definition of 'publisher' and what this
means to the WMF and others...its also very interesting to FLOSS
Manuals, so I will draw in some from the FM community to participate)

adam


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> --Andrew Whitworth
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: adam hyde <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:44 PM
> Subject: [Textbook-l] FLOSS Manuals Bookstore
> To: Wikimedia textbook discussion <[email protected]>
> 
> 
> hi,
> 
> on the level of wiki-book projects, we have just launched the FLOSS
> Manuals bookstore...you can see it here:
> http://www.flossmanuals.net
> 
> and details on how to embed it here:
> http://www.flossmanuals.net/bookstore
> 
> Its an 'embeddable' bookstore -designed to fit on the sidebar of your
> site, and it advertises all books produced by the FLOSS Manuals
> community using the FM platform. We have some tools that enable
> print-on-demand print-ready PDF generation from the wiki. The format
> looks lovely...you can see an example of the PDF copy here:
> http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_64/3865000/3865224/9/print/g1g1_final.pdf
> 
> There is a photo of the books someone brought here:
> http://olpclearningclub.org/2008/10/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/2925910346/
> 
> adam
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> Adam Hyde
> Founder FLOSS Manuals
> http://www.flossmanuals.net
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