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I'm planning to publish a book in the following months, but I'm not entirely sure if the procedure is the same for both copyrighted and copy-lefted books. If you hadn't guessed, I'm publishing one with the latter license (i.e. Creative Commons). I'm planning on using Lulu.com for this first book, but I was wondering if there are publishing houses which are friendly towards copyleft media, preferably based somewhere in Europe.

Any help or suggestion is greatly appreciated!

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[–] alex@jlai.lu 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For self publishing there's really no difference.

I believe framasoft used to have a publishing house for CC-BY books but they might have shut it down during the great purge of two years ago.

[–] razrabotka@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The great purge? Like the alledged "great reset" or what exactly?

[–] alex@jlai.lu 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh sorry yes that sounded way too ominous without context

A couple of years back, Framasoft decided to get rid of all the projects that aren't their core activity, keeping stuff like Mobilizon and Peertube for instance. I think they might have gotten rid of their publishing house as part of this restructuring.

[–] razrabotka@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, I see, it's a shame but I suppose I understand

[–] shaknais@mastodon.social 2 points 1 year ago

@razrabotka My Necromancer's Apprentice is copyleft. You can find it on Smashwords, Amazon, and Archive. As well as everywhere else people have uploaded it.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1366680

https://archive.org/details/necromancersapprentice

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6GWGN19