“The Architecture of Open Source Applications” is Now Available
May 23rd, 2011
It has been slightly over a year in the making, but it’s finally here: The Architecture of Open Source Applications has been published. You can buy the book directly from Lulu.com at http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-architecture-of-open-source-applications/15819207, or view the contents online at http://aosabook.org.
My thanks to all the people who contributed to the book, and especially to Amy Brown, my tireless and diligent co-editor. We hope you enjoy it.
Sounds like a fascinating read, and I’m interested in buying a copy, but my wife doesn’t allow any more dead tree computer books in our two bedroom apartment. Any chance of an ePub or PDF version being put up for sale?
We will make PDF, e-pub, and .mobi (for Kindle) available as soon as we can — but it’s surprisingly hard to produce .mobi files from LaTeX. If you have expertise, and would like to help us make it happen, please let me know.
The move from LaTeX to PDF should be easy enough using GhostScript (dvips > ps2pdf), and from there, Calibre (http://www.calibre.com) offers open source tools to convert pdfs into .mobi or .epub. I would also check out FeedBooks, which offers online tools for publishing to the major EBook formats, as well as an online store for selling.
Correction, Calibre is at http://www.calibre-ebook.com
We’re using pdflatex, so creating PDF was trivial.
But when we run our PDF through Calibre, the output is awful (drops into italics at random places, some diagrams are lost, etc.).
Hm, that’s unfortunate. That puts pretty close to the edge of my familiarity in the eBook arena. I know that ePub is just a zip file containing xhtml and an xml manifest, so I’m going to try converting the website version of the book into ePub. I’ll let you know how it goes, and I’ll be glad to share it back to you if it works out.