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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title">First paper version of the Norwegian Free Culture book heading my way</div>
  24       <div class="date"> 9th August 2015</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>Typesetting a book is harder than I hoped.  As the translation is
  26 mostly done, and a volunteer proof reader was going to check the text
  27 on paper, it was time this summer to focus on formatting my translated
  28 <a href="http://www.docbook.org/">docbook</a> based version of the
  29 <a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a> book by Lawrence
  30 Lessig.  I've been trying to get both docboox-xsl+fop and dblatex to
  31 give me a good looking PDF, but in the end I went with dblatex, because
  32 its Debian maintainer and upstream developer were responsive and very
  33 helpful in solving my formatting challenges.</p>
  34
  35 <p>Last night, I finally managed to create a PDF that no longer made
  36 <a href="http://www.lulu.com/">Lulu.com</a> complain after uploading,
  37 and I ordered a text version of the book on paper.  It is lacking a
  38 proper book cover and is not tagged with the correct ISBN number, but
  39 should give me an idea what the finished book will look like.</p>
  40
  41 <p>Instead of using Lulu, I did consider printing the book using
  42 <a href="http://www.createspace.com/">CreateSpace</a>, but ended up
  43 using Lulu because it had smaller book size options (CreateSpace seem
  44 to lack pocket book with extended distribution).  I looked for a
  45 similar service in Norway, but have not seen anything so far.  Please
  46 let me know if I am missing out on something here.</p>
  47
  48 <p>But I still struggle to decide the book size.  Should I go for
  49 pocket book (4.25x6.875 inches / 10.8x17.5 cm) with 556 pages, Digest
  50 (5.5x8.5 inches / 14x21.6 cm) with 323 pages or US Trade (6x8 inches /
  51 15.3x22.9 cm) with 280 pages?  Fewer pager give a cheaper book, and a
  52 smaller book is easier to carry around.  The test book I ordered was
  53 pocket book sized, to give me an idea how well that fit in my hand,
  54 but I suspect I will end up using a digest sized book in the end to
  55 bring the prize down further.</p>
  56
  57 <p>My biggest challenge at the moment is making nice cover art.  My
  58 inkscape skills are not yet up to the task of replicating the original
  59 cover in SVG format.  I also need to figure out what to write about
  60 the book on the back (will most likely use the same text as the
  61 description on web based book stores).  I would love help with this,
  62 if you are willing to license the art source and final version using
  63 the same CC license as the book.  My artistic skills are not really up
  64 to the task.</p>
  65
  66 <p>I plan to publish the book in both English and Norwegian and on
  67 paper, in PDF form as well as EPUB and MOBI format.  The current
  68 status can as usual be found on
  69 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>
  70 in the archive/ directory.  So far I have spent all time on making the
  71 PDF version look good.  Someone should probably do the same with the
  72 dbtoepub generated e-book.  Help is definitely needed here, as I
  73 expect to run out of steem before I find time to improve the epub
  74 formatting.</p>
  75
  76 <p>Please let me know via github if you find typos in the book or
  77 discover translations that should be improved.  The final proof
  78 reading is being done right now, and I expect to publish the finished
  79 result in a few months.</p>
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  82       <div class="tags">Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture</a>.</div>
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