From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 09:47:57 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Draft post about the English edition on Lulu.com.
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Draft post about the English edition on Lulu.com.
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+Title: "Free Culture" by @lessig - The background story for Creative Commons - new edition available
+Tags: english, docbook, freeculture
+Date: 2015-10-23 13:20
+
+In 2004, as the <ahref="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons
+movement</a> gained momentum, its creator Lawrence Lessig wrote the
+book <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_(book)">Free
+Culture</a> to explain the problems with increasing copyright
+regulation and suggest some solutions.  I read the book and was moved
+by it.  Reading the book inspired me and changed the way I looked on
+copyright law, and I would love it if more people would read it
+too.</p>
+
+<p>Because of this, I decided in the summer of 2012 to translate it to
+Norwegian Bokmål and publish it for those of my friends and family
+that prefer to read books in Norwegian.  Because of the way I
+translated the book, using docbook and a gettext PO file, I also ended
+up with a new edition of the English original.  I've been in touch
+with the author all the way, and he said it was fine with him to also
+publish an English version. Today, I made this edition
+<ahref="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22402863.html">available
+for sale on Lulu.com</a>, for those interested in a paper book.  This
+is the cover:
+
+<p><img align="center" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-10-23-free-culture-english-published-cover.png"/></p>
+
+<p>I will make the Norwegian Bokmål version available for purchase in
+a few days.</p>
+
+<p>The book is also available in PDF, ePub and MOBI formats from
+<ahref="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">my
+github project page</a>.  Note the ePub and MOBI versions have some
+formatting problems I believe is due to bugs in the docbook tool
+dbtoepub (Debian BTS issues
+<ahref="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795842">#795842</a>
+and
+<ahref="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796871">#796871</a>),
+but I have not taken the time to investigate.  I recommend the PDF and
+ePub version for now, as they seem to show up fine in the viewers I
+have available.</p>
+
+After the translation was complete, I was able to get some sponsoring
+from the NUUG Foundation to print the book.  This is the reason their
+logo is located on the back cover. I am very grateful for their
+contribution.</p>
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