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- <div class="title">French Docbook/PDF/EPUB edition of the Free Culture book</div>
+ <div class="title">French Docbook/PDF/EPUB/MOBI edition of the Free Culture book</div>
<div class="date"> 1st October 2015</div>
<div class="body"><p>As I wrap up the Norwegian version of
<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">Free
Culture</a> book by Lawrence Lessig (still waiting for my final proof
-reading copy to arrive in the mail), my great dblatex helper and
+reading copy to arrive in the mail), my great
+<a href="http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/">dblatex</a> helper and
developer of the dblatex docbook processor, Benoît Guillon, decided a
to try to create a French version of the book. He started with the
-French translation available from the Wikilivres wiki pages, and wrote
-a program to convert it into a PO file, allowing the translation to be
-integrated into the po4a based framework I use to create the Norwegian
-translation the the English edition. We meet on the
-<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23dblatex">#dblatex IRC channel</a> to
-discuss the work. If you want to help with this, check out
+French translation available from the
+<a href="http://www.wikilivres.ca/wiki/Culture_libre">Wikilivres wiki
+pages</a>, and wrote a program to convert it into a PO file, allowing
+the translation to be integrated into the po4a based framework I use
+to create the Norwegian translation the the English edition. We meet
+on the <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23dblatex">#dblatex IRC
+channel</a> to discuss the work. If you want to help create a French
+edition, check out
<a href="https://github.com/marsgui/free-culture-lessig">his git
repository</a> and join us on IRC. If the French edition look good,
-we might publish it as a paper book on lulu.com. For that to happen,
-the drawings and the cover need to be translated too.</p>
+we might publish it as a paper book on lulu.com. A French version of
+the drawings and the cover need to be provided for this to happen.</p>
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