Hi Nick,
For the British Columbia Open Textbook Project we are using a publishing platform called Pressbooks. It is built on WordPress. We are hosting our own instance, which is a bit tricky to set up. However, there is also a hosted option at http://pressbooks.com. We've been contributing code to this project.
Cheers,
Clint Lalonde
Manager, Open Education
BCcampus
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2. ebook publishing (4)
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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 10:23:48 +0100
From: Joe Wilson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: MOOCs as not quite OER
Pat , David
Thanks for link
http://www.sr.ithaka.org/sites/default/files/reports/S-R_Interactive_Online_Learning_Campus_20140710.pdf
and for reference to Jonathan Rees ' s Blog it is a good read
http://moreorlessbunk.wordpress.com
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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:17:50 +0000
From: "Sheppard, Nick" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: ebook publishing
Hi folks
I've had an enquiry from an academic colleague who is hosting an Erasmus summer school for which student groups have to produce a research paper to gain credits; there is a commitment to provide a repository (sic) for the student work that is open access...they had apparently intended to host the work on a dedicated website but are thinking about the possibility of publishing as an ebook with an isbn.
I am aware of http://www.lulu.com/ which might be a suitable solution and was used I think by certain well known oer-ers for Into the Wild - http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/2012/601
I've also been pointed at booktype - http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/booktype/ - but I think it needs to be installed on a web-server which is probably more involved than my colleague would like for this project.
Any other suggestions/advice?
Thanks
Nick
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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 14:28:04 +0100
From: Steven Stapleton <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: ebook publishing
Hi Nick,
For the e-book side of things we used https://www.smashwords.com/about/how_to_publish_on_smashwords to publish a number of titles as OER. Smashwords provide style guidelines and if you stick to them the upload is fairly painless. They will also help push content out through various platforms if you add a reference to them. Not sure how it would stack up against the other options you mention - but it worked for us.
Cheers,
Steve
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Subject: ebook publishing
Hi folks
I've had an enquiry from an academic colleague who is hosting an Erasmus summer school for which student groups have to produce a research paper to gain credits; there is a commitment to provide a repository (sic) for the student work that is open access...they had apparently intended to host the work on a dedicated website but are thinking about the possibility of publishing as an ebook with an isbn.
I am aware of http://www.lulu.com/ which might be a suitable solution and was used I think by certain well known oer-ers for Into the Wild - http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/2012/601
I've also been pointed at booktype - http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/booktype/ - but I think it needs to be installed on a web-server which is probably more involved than my colleague would like for this project.
Any other suggestions/advice?
Thanks
Nick
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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:19:29 +0000
From: "Tony.Hirst" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: ebook publishing
How about leanpub? https://leanpub.com/
From: <Sheppard>, Nick <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
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Date: Tuesday, 15 July 2014 14:17
To: "[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: ebook publishing
Hi folks
I’ve had an enquiry from an academic colleague who is hosting an Erasmus summer school for which student groups have to produce a research paper to gain credits; there is a commitment to provide a repository (sic) for the student work that is open access…they had apparently intended to host the work on a dedicated website but are thinking about the possibility of publishing as an ebook with an isbn.
I am aware of http://www.lulu.com/ which might be a suitable solution and was used I think by certain well known oer-ers for Into the Wild - http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/2012/601
I’ve also been pointed at booktype - http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/booktype/ - but I think it needs to be installed on a web-server which is probably more involved than my colleague would like for this project.
Any other suggestions/advice?
Thanks
Nick
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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:23:12 +0000
From: "Anna.Comas-Quinn" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: ebook publishing
We used Research-publishing.net, a very small-scale academic publisher.
You can see our book at http://research-publishing.net/publications/2013-beaven-comas-quinn-sawhill/
Anna
From: <Sheppard>, Nick <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Reply-To: Open Educational Resources <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Date: Tuesday, 15 July 2014 14:17
To: "[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: ebook publishing
Hi folks
I’ve had an enquiry from an academic colleague who is hosting an Erasmus summer school for which student groups have to produce a research paper to gain credits; there is a commitment to provide a repository (sic) for the student work that is open access…they had apparently intended to host the work on a dedicated website but are thinking about the possibility of publishing as an ebook with an isbn.
I am aware of http://www.lulu.com/ which might be a suitable solution and was used I think by certain well known oer-ers for Into the Wild - http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/2012/601
I’ve also been pointed at booktype - http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/booktype/ - but I think it needs to be installed on a web-server which is probably more involved than my colleague would like for this project.
Any other suggestions/advice?
Thanks
Nick
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