Our dear friends at OSP in Brussels have won the 2009 Plantin Moretus Award for the best-designed Belgian book in the category non-fiction: Liesbeth Huybrechts, CrossOver: Kunst, media en technologie in Vlaanderen, Gent 2009.
Urco Editora is a new publishing house using Scribus and publishing under Creative Commons licenses.
Urco Editora is a new publishing house from Galicia (in the north-west of Spain), dedicated to the translation of horror, fantasy and science fiction classics. The work of Urco Editora is 100% open source based. All the publishing process (translation, cover design, layout, etc) is made using OpenOffice.org, Inkscape, Gimp and Scribus. All the texts published by Urco Editora are under Creative Commons licenses.
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