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Originally Posted by pittendrigh
Lots of good ideas here. I'm mostly doing this for the fun of it. I am retired. I am writing a book about making fishing flies and about boat building--another of many hobbies. There is no money in fly tying books. But I'm doing it anyway. I do make a small amount of money selling digital blueprints (passwords) for do-it-yourself boat builders. That basically pays for my VD server.
I have a CMS on SourceForge that has been there for 15 years. So far I'm the only one who uses it. http://sourceforge.net/projects/robopages. I haven't made a codes update there for over a year. So the new "website that looks and acts like a book" codes are not yet part of that download. They will be. Perhaps before summer. What I have on sourceforge amounts to my own personal source control system, because there are no other users.
I have an ugly proof-of-concept website that looks like a book prototype at http://roadkill.montana-riverboats.c...e/apreface.htm It needs a lot of work yet.
epub is, I think, just a slightly hot rod XML file. Before I retired I spent the last 6 or 7 years working with Tomcat, Java, XML and XML Databases, like Exist and SleepyCat. So I know how to manipulate XML with XPath and XQuery.
Why do I want to do this? It's too cold to fish in winter so I stay busy with boat building and code hacking. |
When you get that book written, be sure and publish it on Amazon. I am sure you will make a few bucks. There is a small market for fishing and outdoor books.
And by a few I mean not enough to report.
