[RNLD] What's missing?

[Hiram Ring]

You could also try Calibre, a free open-source conversion tool for E-books. It's made to convert between different kinds of e-reader formats, but it will also take any RTF (perhaps even DOC, I haven't checked) and convert it into any other format you want. You'll just have to play around with the formatting of your document a bit to make sure it outputs how you want it to.

Calibre: http://calibre-ebook.com

As far as selling your content on iTunes, check out: http://www.apple.com/itunes/sellcontent/

best,
Hiram


On Sep 19, 2012, at 3:57 PM, Doug Marmion wrote:

> Hi Jasmin,
> 
> Have you looked at iBooks Author? I'm not sure it's possible to repurpose iBooks for print, but the application is free so worth trying out.
> 
> http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/
> 
> Apparently the file format is based on epub3 but with a few proprietary extensions--there's some debate over whether this is good or bad (Amazon's Kindle file format is also proprietary).
> 
> 
> regards,
> doug
> 
> 
> On 19/09/2012, at 5:44 PM, Jasmin Morley <jasmin.morley at adelaide.edu.au> wrote:
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>> 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 from a cheap printer or publisher.
>> Jasmin
>> From: Daryn McKenny [daryn at acra.org.au]
>> Sent: Wednesday, 19 September 2012 1:34 PM
>> To: Piers Kelly; r-n-l-d
>> Subject: Re: [RNLD] What's missing?
>> 
>> Also www.ourlanguages.net.au
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>> Regards
>> 
>> Daryn
>> 
>> From: Piers Kelly <piers.kelly at gmail.com>
>> To: RNLD <r-n-l-d at unimelb.edu.au>
>> Subject: [RNLD] What's missing?
>> 
>> 
>> Hi all, 
>> 
>> Apologies for cross-posting.
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>> 
>> Below is a quick-and-dirty audit of existing web resources for Australian languages.
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>> Please tell me! Is there a general or particular demand out there for a web-based resource that is not already being met by these sites? 
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>> If Tinkerbell granted you one web-based wish what would it be?  Eg, Do we need a broad public discussion forum for languages? More email lists? Something else?
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>> Site
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>> Service
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>> Main audience
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>> RNLD
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>> Archived email list for issues in language endangerment and technical questions about language documentation; links, news etc
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>> Linguists, language activists
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>> AIATSIS
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>> Austlang, Aseda, Ozbib, Language and People Thesaurus, etc. 
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>> Speakers, linguists
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>> Language centre websites (various)
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>> Information about Australian languages at a regional level. Some have online dictionaries and other resources. 
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>> Speakers, public
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>> Facebook
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>> Language-specific social networking groups
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>> Speakers
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>> David Nathan’s site
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>> Links to web resources for Australian languages including newspaper articles
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>> Public, linguists, speakers
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>> Wikipedia
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>> Numerous detailed entries on Australian languages
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>> Public, linguists, speakers
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>> (NB. Obviously linguists and speakers can be one and the same, and everyone is a member of the public!)
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>> Many thanks,
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>> Piers
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