Re: [ubuntu-uk] Book costs (was Re: e-books without Adobe Digital Editions)

2010-11-11 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 21:12 +, Bruno Girin wrote: > For a publisher, the traditional business model is based on acquiring > the rights to reproduce a text, producing physical items out of this > text, shifting those books to distributors and selling the physical > objects. > > Most of the cost

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Book costs (was Re: e-books without Adobe Digital Editions)

2010-11-11 Thread Bruno Girin
On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 18:28 +, Will Bickerstaff wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Glen Mehn > wrote: > > The bank analogy doesn't exactly make sense as banks are > replacing > something expensive for them (employees, time, and physical >

[ubuntu-uk] Special bugs, and Live CDs. Help with this Bug please?

2010-11-11 Thread alan c
I use a lot of Live CDs, the Desktop editions. Mostly I distribute them in various ways. The quantities are sometimes quite large. Also I am active on various forums, acting in an outreach way, to give a profile to GNU/Linux, particularly Ubuntu. I am not a developer but I am an active advocate

[ubuntu-uk] The economics of books

2010-11-11 Thread Mark Harrison
I ought to point out here that I am an author. My original thing - a non-fiction, non-IT, 4-CD audiobook has NEVER been available as a printed book, since my publisher only does CDs (50 years ago tapes, and these days, MP3s as well as CDs, with tapes having finally gone about 5 years ago.) My sec

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using VPN in Ubuntu to connect to BT FON or Openzone

2010-11-11 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
Thanks for that – I was aware that there were some VPN clients in the repos. What I was really after was anyone with experience of actually connecting with one – I suppose it must be similar to the instructions given for the Windows version on the BT website From: Matthew Daubney Sent: Wed