Today Adam Hyde presented at the Digital Publishing Tool Kit conference at the Boijmans Museum in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The topic was “Books are Evil”. Tomorrow Adam presents at The Next Chapter conference in Stockholm on the topic “Collaborative Knowledge Production”.
If you would like to be involved in cutting edge book design techniques then you might be the one for us! We write books in 3-5 days and produce print formatted PDF and EPUB in minutes. We are looking for ... read more
An interesting presentation about Book Sprints by Dr Martin Mehlberg. It is great to see more people learning about the process. Relevant materials starts 28 minutes into the video.
The OpenStack Operations Guide is the first Book Sprinted book published by a major Publisher. The Book Sprint was facilitated by Adam Hyde in 2013. Taken from http://opensource.com/business/14/4/oreilly-openstack-operations-guide Now in print: O’Reilly OpenStack Operations Guide Posted 29 Apr 2014 by Jason Baker (Red ... read more
Some recently found articles about the 2012 OpenOil Book Sprint. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/fighting-the-resource-curse/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 http://www.oilinuganda.org/features/governance/booksprint-sets-out-to-demystify-oil-contracts.html https://netzpolitik.org/2012/openoil-projekt-fur-mehr-transparenz-in-der-ol-industrie/ http://loomnie.com/2012/11/15/oil-contracts-how-to-read-and-understand-them/ http://energylawtaiwan.wordpress.com/2012/11/13 http://taxjustice.blogspot.de/2012/11/oil-contracts-how-to-read-and.html http://creative-destruction.me/2012/11/06/here-is-to-a-book-that-did-not-exist-a-week-ago-how-to-understand-an-oil-contract/ http://www.pipelinedreams.org/2012/10/new-resource-and-a-bit-of-self-promotion/ http://thinkafricapress.com/legal/openoil-informing-nation-oil-contracts-demystified http://blog.goethe.de/rueckeroberung/index.php?archives/20-English.html&serendipity%5Blang_selected%5D=en http://satzgrund.de/2012/11/15/openoil-mehr-transparenz-fur-die-bevolkerung/ [no longer online] http://eiti.org/blog/musings-mining-contracts-booksprint http://futurechallenges.org/local/searchlight/informing-the-people-oil-contracts-demystified/
We have been developing a new platform for the rapid and collaborative development of books. Its called ‘PubSweet’ and will be released under an Open Source license shortly. It is a very lightweight framework for online book development and is ... read more
April 7 – 11 : The Right to Health (World Bank), Bogota, Columbia April 23 – 27 : Book Sprints for ICT Research (EC), Barcelona, Spain May 5 – 8 : Book Sprints for ICT Research (EC), Nice, France May ... read more
The following are some links to news items, journal articles etc on Book Sprints and/or Adam Hyde (founder of Book Sprints) that have appeared over the years. In no particular order. The Digital Book, contributions to a discussion (2014) University ... read more
Adam Hyde will be talking about Book Sprints and the future of publishing at the following events: Iannotate, April 5/6, San Francisco http://iannotate.org/ Off the Press: Electronic Publishing in the Arts,May 22, Rotterdam http://digitalpublishingtoolkit.org/22-23-may-2014/program/ The Next Chapter, May 23, Stockhom ... read more
We are very happy to pass on the news that Johnny West and Open Oil (http://openoil.net/) have been awarded a Shuttleworth Grant (http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/fellows/johnny-west/). Book Sprints has worked with Johnny and Open Oil on a number occasions including the very successful books ‘Oil Contracts ... read more
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