[wplug] Book published using Open Source software

[Bill Moran]

In response to DK <curlynoodle at gmail.com>:

> On 8/16/07, Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:
> >
> > Not a huge deal, but I know the publisher of _Triangulation:_End_of_Time_
> >
> > http://www.amazon.com/Triangulation-End-Time-Pete-Butler/dp/0615152805/ref=sr_1_1/102-1920268-2723344?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187301794&sr=1-1
> >
> > and I know from first hand experience that all the publishing work was
> > done exclusively with Open Source software.  He used an Ubuntu system
> > with OpenOffice for the internal layout, and Scribus for the cover
> > layout.
> 
> Always good to discover such uses of OSS.  Wish Amazon made that known
> on their site.  Maybe submit to Slashdot for alittle more publicity.

I don't have a Slashdot account, but I'd be indebted to anyone who
bothers to post this for me.  :)

I was going to post to Scribus and OOo lists, but neither of those
projects seem to have advocacy@ or otherwise appropriate lists for such
a posting.

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com