On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Andrea Pescetti <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/10/2012 Rob Weir wrote: >> >> One way to think of it is to treat the publisher or author (for >> self-published books) as the "consultant" in the terms of the policy. >> They are the ones providing the service, via their book. So we would >> allow linking to the author's website or the publisher's website... >> >> Otherwise, same criteria as consultants -- factual list, respect >> trademark, impartial, rel="nofollow", etc. >> Does this make sense? > > > Yes, nice idea. Another difference would be that we probably want to keep > books listed indefinitely, while we might want to enforce some (long-term) > "renewal process" for consultants if we notice that records tend to become > outdated. >
I took a look on Amazon (the U.S. website, in case it differs by country), and I see the following books published since June 2012. This is just the ones that mention "OpenOffice" in the title: Sept 29: A Conceptual Guide to OpenOffice.org 3 [Kindle Edition] Gabriel Gurley Sept. 27: Practical Open Source Office: LibreOffice(TM) and Apache OpenOffice [Paperback] June Jamrich Parsons Sept 22: How to create your own e-books with OpenOffice / LibreOffice [Kindle Edition] Sébastien Cismondo Sept 1: Navigate - OpenOffice Writer [Kindle Edition] KMG Publishing Limited Sept 1: OpenOffice 3.4 [Paperback] Winfried Seimert Aug 22: OpenOffice Impress [Paperback] Niek Yoan (Editor) July 11: Getting Started with OpenOffice (LibreOffice): The Free Replacement for Microsoft Office [Kindle Edition] Rob Spahitz June 29: Jambo OpenOffice [Paperback] Jesse Russell (Editor), Ronald Cohn (Editor) June 28: Getting Started with OpenOffice.org 3 [Kindle Edition] OOo Authors (Author) June 11: OpenOffice.org XML [Paperback] Jesse Russell (Editor), Ronald Cohn (Editor) I think that is more books on OpenOffice in that time frame than we've done blog posts! Of course, things might not be what they seem. That's why I'm hesitant to just list every book that is published. Some of these might just be reprints by 3rd parties of existing material that is already public on the web under a CC or other free documentation license. Two of them look like print outs of Wikipedia articles. But still there appear to be some real books here, short format e-books as well as full-length paperbacks. So what should we do? List all of these (plus the others from earlier in 2012) ? List them only when requested (like we do with consultants)? List them but screen out ones that we consider to be "low value", e.g., an identical reprint of a free eBook? -Rob > Regards, > Andrea.
