[Qgis-community-team] Books section on our website

João Gaspar joao.f.r.gaspar at gmail.com
Tue Oct 13 01:55:50 PDT 2015


Hi Andreas,
i think that is a good idea.

+1

João

2015-10-13 9:52 GMT+01:00 Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com>:

> Hi
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Neumann, Andreas <a.neumann at carto.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi website team,
>>
>> I have been in contact with the company PacktPub - a company specializing
>> in IT and in particular OpenSource IT books. They publish several books on
>> QGIS. The nice thing is that they return some of the revenues back to the
>> Open Source projects. We just received a payment over € 140 from Anitas
>> book. They will add the other books to our royalty scheme.
>>
>> We also just recently added an entry in their Open Source section:
>> https://www.packtpub.com/books/info/packt/open-source-projects-starting-q
>>
>> I noticed that we don't have a book section yet on our website. Given
>> that there are more and more books on QGIS, it would be nice to have such a
>> section. It would be a win-win situation - for PacktPub and for us. And of
>> course it wouldn't have to be limited to books from PacktPub but can
>> reference any books.
>>
>> The PacktPub manager would offer us additional discount codes or group
>> discounts for ebooks if one wants to buy all QGIS ebooks at once - if we
>> integrate this in our web page. Please note - the more books there are sold
>> - the more we also get back from the royalty scheme program.
>>
>>
> ​+1 from me to add a books section​
>
>
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>>
>>
>>
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