Seattle based Bluefire Productions, recently posted a Silverlight tutorial on their blog of a Feedbooks RSS Browser. It’s a very nice example of what you can do with Silverlight, and it’s always nice to see new people using our API.
Bluefire is involved in all sorts of projects in the digital publishing industry, and I highly recommend their demo for the new Text Layout Platform in Flash 10.
Tags: bluefire, silverlight
[Unrelated to this post, but I did not find a good place for this]
Many of the books on feedbooks come from project gutenberg but don’t comply with the project Gutenberg license which imposes all copies of a “project Gutenberg work” to bear the sentence:
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at http://www.gutenberg.org
which disagrees with “Strictly for personal use, do not use this file for commercial purposes.” found for example in the preamble of “the book of tea” (and probably all feedbooks works).
But you can also read in the license:
“If you want to use the name Project Gutenberg anywhere in the ebooks you distribute or on the distribution medium or in advertising you have to obey these rules:
- you may only distribute verbatim copies of the ebooks. No changes are allowed to the ebook contents. (Though reformatting the ebook to a different file format is considered okay).
- If you charge money for the copies you distribute, you have to pay royalties to Project Gutenberg.
- You must refund your clients for defective copies or if they don’t agree with the Project Gutenberg license.
If you don’t agree with any of the above mentioned restrictions, you may not use the Project Gutenberg trademark. You may still distribute the ebooks if you strip the Project Gutenberg license and all references to Project Gutenberg.“
There is a reference to project Gutenberg in the books (at least the one I have downloaded).