Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

["Karen Sandler" <karen gnome org>]

On Wed, March 6, 2013 3:01 pm, Chris Leonard wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Karen Sandler <karen gnome org> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Packt Publishing has recently put out a book on GNOME 3, which was
> > written
> > by Mohammad Anwari. It would be great to have a review of the book on
> > gnome.org. As with all of their books about free software projects,
> > Packt
> > will give us a small percentage of the royalties as a donation, and
> > slightly more if we promote it on our website (which would include
> > publishing a review). Either way, they'll send us a couple of
> > promotional
> > copies to conduct the review and it would be great to have our view on
> > it
> > out there (positive or negative).
>
> Karen,
>
> If it is going to be sold via Amazon, GNOME might want to look into
> the Amazon non-profit affiliates program.  I believe Brad Kuhn / Tony
> Sebro of SFC recently went through registering SFC (and member
> projects) that wanted to earn click-through donations from purchases
> of project-related books, they could probably tell you more about it.

Thanks, I'll look into it! I did help Bradley and Tony with some of the
legal analysis around taking the revenues from those donations but I
didn't think about the fact that it could make sense for this- thanks! :)

karen