Just Lorem Ipsum, my project book for open-source publishing, is now available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. You, too, can own your very own copy for the low, low price of just $14.99. Don’t buy this book if you… Continue Reading
Just Lorem Ipsum is a demonstration book for self-publishing with open-source software. It is one hundred pages of lorem ipsum, basically ten chapters of faux Latin filler text. To produce the book I used Scribus, an open source desktop publishing… Continue Reading
The cover for Just Lorem Ipsum, my Linux demonstration book, is finished. I used the free and open-source program Scribus to prepare the PDF. Read all about it!
Here is the first draft of the cover of my open-source demonstration book, Just Lorem Ipsum. The book has been the subject of previous posts (Just Lorem Ipsum and Just Lorem Ipsum – Scribus Template). The cover was produced using… Continue Reading
Self-publishing authors can save a lot of up-front investment by taking a do-it-yourself approach to book publication. Free and open-source programs such as LibreOffice (office suite) and Scribus (desktop publishing) can be a big help. I have developed some book… Continue Reading
My new book, “Just Lorem Ipsum” is a demonstration of the use of open-source software for book production. The idea is to use open source software, free fonts and self-produced graphics for the book. Since this is an exercise, I… Continue Reading
Self-publishing is a tricky business. You can read on the internet that most self-published authors only sell a handful of books. So if it costs you $4000.00, $2000.00 or even $500.00 to self-publish, then you are going to be in… Continue Reading
Subtitle: How I APEd the Schnoz. This post describes the publishing of the Schnoz of the Rings: A Parody of J. R. R. Tolien’s The Lord of the Rings (hereafter known as The Schnoz). It is also about how I… Continue Reading