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New book, "Fri kultur" by @lessig, a Norwegian Bokmål translation of "Free Culture" from 2004
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31st October 2015
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People keep asking me where to get the various forms of the book I +published last week, the Norwegian Bokmål edition of Lawrence Lessigs +book Free Culture. It was published on paper via lulu.com, and is +also available in PDF, ePub and MOBI format. I currently sell the +paper edition for self cost from lulu.com, but might extend the +distribution to book stores like Amazon and Barnes & Noble later. +This will double the price and force me to make a profit from selling +the book. Anyway, here are links to get the book in different +formats:

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Note that the MOBI version have problems with the table of content, +at least with the viewers I have been able to test. And the ePub file +have several problems according to +epubcheck, but seem +to display fine in the viewers I have tested. All the files needed to +create the book in various forms are available from +the +github project page.

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The project got press coverage from the Norwegian IT news site +digi.no. Check out the article +"Vil +åpne politikernes øyne for Creative Commons". + +

I've blogged +about the project as it moved along. The blogs document the translation +progress and insights I had along the way.

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Gavebok overlevert Stortinget i dag
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Book cover for the Free Culture book finally done
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3rd September 2015
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Creating a good looking book cover proved harder than I expected. -I wanted to create a cover looking similar to the original cover of -the -Free -Culture book we are translating to Norwegian, and I wanted it in -vector format for high resolution printing. But my inkscape knowledge -were not nearly good enough to pull that off. - -

But thanks to the great inkscape community, I was able to wrap up -the cover yesterday evening. I asked on the -#inkscape IRC channel -on Freenode for help and clues, and Marc Jeanmougin (Mc-) volunteered -to try to recreate it based on the PDF of the cover from the HTML -version. Not only did he create a -SVG document with -the original and his vector version side by side, he even provided -an instruction -video explaining how he did it. But the instruction video is -not easy to follow for an untrained inkscape user. The video is a -recording on how he did it, and he is obviously very experienced as -the menu selections are very quick and he mentioned on IRC that he did -use some keyboard shortcuts that can't be seen on the video, but it -give a good idea about the inkscape operations to use to create the -stripes with the embossed copyright sign in the center.

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I took his SVG file, copied the vector image and re-sized it to fit -on the cover I was drawing. I am happy with the end result, and the -current english version look like this:

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I am not quite sure about the text on the back, but guess it will -do. I picked three quotes from the official site for the book, and -hope it will work to trigger the interest of potential readers. The -Norwegian cover will look the same, but with the texts and bar code -replaced with the Norwegian version.

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The book is very close to being ready for publication, and I expect -to upload the final draft to Lulu in the next few days and order a -final proof reading copy to verify that everything look like it should -before allowing everyone to order their own copy of Free Culture, in -English or Norwegian Bokmål. I'm waiting to give the the productive -proof readers a chance to complete their work.

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