Subj : Electronic publishing FDN welcomes your submissions
To : ep-fdn coordinator
From : Russell Tiedt
Date : Fri Dec 07 2007 07:00 am
Hello ep-fdn.
06 Dec 07 05:47, you wrote to all:
Well firstly by excluding pdf, you are hampering your efforts togain content,
as most people release stuf in PDF format, due to their perception, that this
is the "defacto" format for electronic publishing, i.e. you are shooting
yourself in the foot so to say ... , or both feet ...
Secondly Linux has a very good version of Acrobat Reader which is free on all
platforms, currently using Ubuntu ....
Am going to try and get copies of the files for this area mentioned below, but
I have the Gutenburg project on DVD, but the files are named crypticly, and
designed to be acsessed via a web-site, so a serious search and rename
operation would be required.
I have a number of novels of which there are "free" versions, but they are
mixed in with pay versions, I index and store according to subject/authour and
not the lisence used for distribution, and I am not going to check 10 gig's
worth of files for their suitability for distrabution, and most of these are
in PDF format any how, which gives me less reason to bother ...
About the only thing that as I see it is distributable via you setup is
Linux/FreeBSD documentation, and material which is now beginning to be
released under one or other form of the creative commons lisence - severely
limiting any content you might get ...
Just my comments ...
ec> I thought I'd take this opportunity to formally introduce the
ec> electronic publishing file distribution network to the fidonet
ec> community. THough an article about it authored by yours truly was
ec> published in fidonews many may not have seen it.
ec> so far the only traffic in this file echo has been that which I
ec> generated myself. Obviously, we're looking for contributions from the
ec> sysops and users out there in fidoland. You can see epsubmit.zip
ec> from the administrative area, ep-adm for complete guidelines on file
ec> submissions.
ec> AS you peruse the submission guidelines you'll note that I will not
ec> release pdf files into any of the ep-fdn echoes. there is no way that
ec> I can guarantee the legality of hatching such files, therefore I won't
ec> take pdf files for distribution under any circumstances. Another
ec> willing soul out there might wish to start an fdn or two for materials
ec> in pdf format. However, ep-fdn cannot accept pdf files for
ec> distribution. I have no way of reading them even were I to acquire
ec> acrobat reader for linux due to some technical barriers related to
ec> blindness and inherent in the pdf format itself.
ec> AS we must not violate international copyright rules and the various
ec> laws governing intellectual property throughout the world we ask that
ec> you read and comply with the submission guidelines contained in
ec> epsubmit.zip. IF there is a problem complying with them but you feel
ec> that a book or periodical would be of interest to the fido community,
ec> and it can be legally distributed in this manner contact me and we'll
ec> see what can be worked out.
ec> Regards,
ec> Richard
ec> --- timEd 1.10.y2k+
ec> * Origin: Radio REscue net operations BBS (1:116/901)
