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Sat, 17 Dec 2005

Bee Careful, Marvin!

S and I wrote a children's book a year or so ago and only recently finished making needed revisions and self-publishing it on Lulu.com. We ordered a few copies to make sure it looked good in print and they showed up today and they're fantastic!

The book was created using Open Source tools The Gimp and Scribus. The book is released under a Creative Commons license (by-nc-sa 2.0). We decided not to collect royalties, so the price of the book is solely Lulu's publishing costs.

The book isn't perfect--there are some color issues I'm puzzled about. It's our first book, though, and we're really excited--this is a wonderful moment for both of us.

Our Lulu storefront.

[ tags: books, software | category: /content | Permalink | 2 comments ]
Posted by Lion Kimbro on Fri Dec 23 19:32:18 2005
Wow! That's really cool! I have a 4.5 year old, and I think she'd love this!

I want to support Free Culture. But before I buy it, I have a question: Where's the source? Is it online?


Posted by willg on Fri Dec 23 19:44:38 2005
Well, the "source" gets a little dicey because it's a Scribus document with a series of JPG files--but it's pretty big in size.

It's not online because I haven't figured out how to host it yet.

Lulu prints from a PDF, so we have it in that format as well, but PDF isn't very useful to manipulate for people and similar to the Scribus document and images, I haven't figured out how to host it yet either.

This isn't an issue of us wanting money--we don't get any royalties or money regardless of whether someone buys it or downloads the PDF and prints it
out.

I may just bite the bullet and post it on my server along with images of us making the book and steps we took and such.

/will


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