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+PressBooks , der wordpress-basierte e-book-authoring service, hat eine weitere evolutionsstufe hinter sich: das plugin gibt es jetzt auch als Open Source.

"I tried the service and it works quite well. It creates a nicely laid-out, easy to maneuver online book and the export features work fine. It is, as McGuire writes, a content management system for books. The system now uses PrinceXML to turn the HTML into PDFs for output and you can export the entire book at any time. There are plans to add a print-on-demand service for customers as well.

In addition to the open source code, there is also a freemium website, Pressbooks.com, where authors can host their own books for free or pay for more features and customization.

“While there are other tools out there, focusing on ebooks or print, I don’t know of any other services that have taken such a broad view, of making a book content management system that will output,” he said.

McGuire hopes to be the Linux of e-publishing – mostly free – and the real money comes from installation and support."

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Google Sets
Give it two examples, and Google's spreadsheet can make a list of almost anything. 

Create a new spreadsheet in Google Drive, type mazda in A1 and honda in A2 (the first column), highlight the two cells and then press Ctrl (or Option for Mac) while clicking and dragging the small blue box from the lower-right corner to select additional cells where to place the Google Sets results.

Yesterday +TechCrunch  reported that if you make a spreadsheet in Google Drive (Google Docs, formerly), enter and highlight the names of two beers, and pull down on the corner of the spreadsheet cell while holding Option or Control, the app will automatically fill the following cells with the names of other beers. The information is pulled, seemingly, from nowhere. It doesn't just work for beer, car brands, colors, states, or websites, as reported, but just about any category you can think of. 

See more examples at http://goo.gl/rHrYN

Read more:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.ca/2012/11/google-sets-still-available.html