<p>Lulu is a POD service that you can provide  fully typeset PDF file to. They do support certain ebook formats as well, but tend to be limited. </p>
<p>But this is the last step in the process, and there may be needs for supporting other formats, whether it is PDf based ebooks, as distinct from print ready PDFs, mobi, ePub2, ePub3, Daisy, new Kindle format, HTML for integration into websites or web services.</p>

<p>The key issue is having a tool that is simple to use for end users, allowing them to add content and generate the type of files they require.</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 19, 2012 10:10 PM, "Claire Bowern" <<a href="mailto:clairebowern@gmail.com">clairebowern@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<a href="http://lulu.com" target="_blank">lulu.com</a> will do this - is that the sort of thing you're after?<div>Claire<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Andrew Cunningham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lang.support@gmail.com" target="_blank">lang.support@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>


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<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><span><font color="#888888">
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 19, 2012 5:44 PM, "Jasmin Morley" <<a href="mailto:jasmin.morley@adelaide.edu.au" target="_blank">jasmin.morley@adelaide.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">








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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">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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