<p>Hi Jasmin,</p>
<p>That is possible. We've been looking at something similar. It would need an intermediatory file format that could then be converted to various ebook formats and to a appropriately typeset PDF file for print on demand services. The necessary building blocks and conversion tools exist.</p>

<p>Initial steps are to build a simple to use GUI for authoring the content in the intermediatory format (probably xml based)  and develop XSLT and XSL:FO files or leverage of existing conversion tools.</p>
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<div style="direction:ltr;font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma">If I had a web-based wish it would be an online publishing site. People I work with want to make ebooks (readers, song books, etc...) that they can sell on itunes. Wouldn't it be
 great if there was somewhere they could set up a private or group account, and upload texts, images and other media to create a book (the way some websites let you make your own photo books). Then they could either publish it as an ebook or order print copies
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<div style="direction:ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Daryn McKenny [<a href="mailto:daryn@acra.org.au" target="_blank">daryn@acra.org.au</a>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 19 September 2012 1:34 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Piers Kelly; r-n-l-d<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [RNLD] What's missing?<br>
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<div>Also <a href="http://www.ourlanguages.net.au" target="_blank">www.ourlanguages.net.au</a></div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Piers Kelly <<a href="mailto:piers.kelly@gmail.com" target="_blank">piers.kelly@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>RNLD <<a href="mailto:r-n-l-d@unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">r-n-l-d@unimelb.edu.au</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[RNLD] What's missing?<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Hi all, </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Apologies for cross-posting.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Below is a quick-and-dirty audit of existing web resources for Australian languages.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Please tell me! Is there a general or particular demand out there for a web-based resource that is <b>not</b> already being met by these sites? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">If Tinkerbell granted you one web-based wish what would it be? </span><span style="font-family:Arial"> Eg, </span><span style="font-family:Arial">Do we need a broad public discussion forum for languages?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Archived email list for issues in language endangerment and technical questions about language documentation; links, news etc</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Information about Australian languages at a regional level. Some have online dictionaries and other resources. 
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