X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/aff64b75db73470c0fd0d8562b79485014712904..b386543f6fb4f168c1c755b23d1be3458df7b25e:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index d0dffe1a62..32d0e41c04 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -6,6 +6,57 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + New book, "Fri kultur" by @lessig, a Norwegian Bokmål translation of "Free Culture" from 2004 + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_book___Fri_kultur__by__lessig__a_Norwegian_Bokm_l_translation_of__Free_Culture__from_2004.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_book___Fri_kultur__by__lessig__a_Norwegian_Bokm_l_translation_of__Free_Culture__from_2004.html + Sat, 31 Oct 2015 09:00:00 +0100 + <p>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:</p> + +<ul> + + <li><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22406445.html">Buy + paper edition from lulu.com</a></li> + + <li><a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf">Download + PDF, size 7.9 MiB</a> (gratis/free)</li> + + <li><a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub">Download + ePub, size 11 MiB</a> (gratis/free)</li> + + <li><a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/archive/freeculture.nb.mobi">Download + MOBI, size 3.8 MiB</a> (gratis/free)</li> + +</ul> + +<p>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 +<a href="https://github.com/IDPF/epubcheck">epubcheck</a>, 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 +<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">the +github project page</a>.</p> + +<p>The project got press coverage from the Norwegian IT news site +digi.no. Check out the article +"<a href="http://www.digi.no/juss_og_samfunn/2015/10/29/vil-apne-politikernes-oyne-for-creative-commons">Vil +åpne politikernes øyne for Creative Commons</a>".</li> + +<p>I've <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">blogged +about the project</a> as it moved along. The blogs document the translation +progress and insights I had along the way.</p> + + + Gavebok overlevert Stortinget i dag http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gavebok_overlevert_Stortinget_i_dag.html @@ -524,56 +575,5 @@ specific.</p> - - Book cover for the Free Culture book finally done - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Book_cover_for_the_Free_Culture_book_finally_done.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Book_cover_for_the_Free_Culture_book_finally_done.html - Thu, 3 Sep 2015 21:00:00 +0200 - <p>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 -<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">Free -Culture</a> 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. - -<p>But thanks to the great inkscape community, I was able to wrap up -the cover yesterday evening. I asked on the -<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23inkscape">#inkscape IRC channel</a> -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 -<a href="https://marc.jeanmougin.fr/share/copy1.svg ">SVG document with -the original and his vector version side by side</a>, he even provided -an <a href="https://marc.jeanmougin.fr/share/out-1.ogv">instruction -video</a> explaining how he did it</a>. 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.</p> - -<p>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:</p> - -<img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-09-03-free-culture-cover.png" width="70%" align="center"/> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - - -