Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [EASY HACKS ITEM] Re: LibreOffice "Documentation in Local Libraries Project"

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Ma Xiaojun <damage3025@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just borrowed OOo 2.0 Getting Started Guide and Migration Guide from
> my local library, which is in Hong Kong.
>
> They are published by "Solar Press" and have ISBNs.
>
> At the first glance I thought this is related to Sun, however, it
> turns out that it is a press in Hong Kong whose website no longer
> accessible, unfortunately.
> Archive: https://sites.google.com/a/solarpress.hk/www/

These are probably the books produced by the Docs team at OOo, which
have been copied by several other organisations and sold through
various places including Amazon.com, without returning any money to
the project.

I expect that the same may occur with the LO books, if it has not
already happened.

For practical reasons that I don't have time to explain right now, the
OOo and LO books were not listed directly with Amazon.com and other
online retailers in a way to return the profits to the project. This
listing is possible, but so far no one on the project has come forth
to do it. Also, it costs money (Lulu.com listings do not) and with the
fast release schedule, I personally have not considered it to be worth
the cost and the time to do it.

> I know it is probably off topic here.
> I still want to ask why our documentation seems quite hard to get
> published as books have ISBNs.

Printed copies of our books have ISBNs. At this time they are
available from Lulu.com through links on our wiki page.
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications


> BTW, I, yet another old school person, do prefer paper-based books.
> BTW2, I also feel that it would be cool if our documentations are
> available as E-book. Do we have any chance have our documentations
> included in things like Safari Books Online, then our documentations
> get auto and free inclusion, right?


See my earlier note about eBooks. I don't think we can get listed in
Safari Books Online (do they take things not published by O'Reilly and
its affiliates?), but if that's possible it's a good idea.

--Jean

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