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

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Richard,

yes - that page would be a good template. Also good to structure by 
language - and maybe order by release date.

I don't see a problem with direct links to vendor websites (per book) - 
we are open for every book to be listed.

If you agree - I will ask PacktPub about those discount codes - so we 
can publish them on our website along with the book descriptions.

Andreas

On 13.10.2015 11:02, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> On 13-10-15 10:42, Neumann, Andreas 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 for a book section, what about creating a page like this:
>
> http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/trainingmaterial/index.html
>
> so we have a section per language and an icon of the cover and maybe
> some words per book.
>
> I would refrain from putting links to sellers, you can 'duckduckgo' :-)
> shops easily if you want to know where to buy those books. In that way
> we can more or less keep neutral about our buying prefs.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard
>
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