[sword-devel] Wooing publishing houses

[Edward Maros]

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alecg wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I talked to a guy who does specialty-bible editing about how to sell
> Nelson and the rest on letting us distribute their translations (or
> paraphrases) with Sword. He had two suggestions that seemed novel to me.
> 
> The first was that we should have a plug for them: a hyperlink on the
> UI that linked to a page where a print copy could be bought.
> 
> The second was a method for insuring that the translation had not been
> tampered with. Perhaps a checksum for those modules that insist on it
> compiled in to SWORD would do the job? (I think this objection is rather
> silly, anyone could say anything they said was from translation x
> and be lying about it. Still, the publishers would probably feel
> better if there was some sort of authentication mechanism.)
> 
> On a different subject, has anyone considered porting sword to the
> Palm? If the modules could be compressed with bzip2 it might be made
> to fit. I would love to do it, but I am just learning C++ and have
> never ported a thing before in my life.

The thought of SWORD on the palm does appeal to me. I have seen several
Bible references for the Palm. The one big thing that I noticed is that
they all split the Bible into sections. This would be a must as people
with Palms need to do more that just read the Bible. Would it be
possible to have SWORD support sections and not just the full Bible?

Thanks,
Ed
> 
> Grace and peace,
> 
> Alexander Garden
> 
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Edward Maros                            emaros@ligo.caltech.edu
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