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It will be nice if you can freely distribute the epubs with Google Play Books and other online library platfrom :grin:

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I haven’t used those platforms. Is this something anyoe can do, or do we need an “official” account? It would be nice to have something that was regularly updated.

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For publishing ebook in Google Play, you have to sign up as publisher to Google Play Books, but unfortunately new publisher sign-ups in the Google Play Books is temporarily closed now :sweat_smile:

https://support.google.com/books/partner/checklist/4489282?hl=en

But luckily I have signed up as publisher years ago and I can help if you want to publish SC ebooks in epub format with my account. :grin:

For other online publishing platform, like Amazon and others, I haven’t try it yet. Perhaps other members here know to do it on other platforms…

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Hey, well that sounds great, why not go ahead? You can be the Chief Electronic Book Publishing Officer for SuttaCentral. See, you get a title and everything!

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Thanks, but I don’t want a title for that, it’s too excessive :smile:

I will catch up with the publishing Bhante Sujato’s translation ebook on Google Play Books asap and I will inform the progress… :anjal:

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I just noticed that the EPUB downloads are failing with “Failed - Server Problem” (in Chrome).

Thanks

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Thanks for the heads up, @blake can you look at this?

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Is there any update on this? I know it’s hard to say, but how out of date would the epubs from July be? Like on a scale of same—little change—huge change?
EDIT: Or put another way, if I’m going to do a project with the epubs, should I go ahead and use from July, or better to wait.

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Better to wait, I have alerted our developers to this multiple times, I will remind them once more. I am almost certain it will be a trivial configuration fix.

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Bhante @Sujato,

It looks like in the SN epub the Samyutta headings are simply “Linked Discourses 1” etc. Other than the guide, the actual names of the samyuttas are not in the texts.

I can’t find an original copy of the files when the books first came out. Is this intentional or a bug? I’m going to put them back in in the editions I release, but it would be nice if they are included in the auto generated. Really great if they could included both Pali and English.

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Okay, thanks for the feedback, we will review this at some point, hopefully next year. So far our main efforts have simply been to get them working at all!

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Sadhu! For that I am extremely grateful

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Bhante

Many thanks for the Nikayas. Using a Mac with Safari or Chrome. Downloaded Digha and Majjima successfully.

Others are get downloaded as 37 bytes with a .json extension.

Any advice to download the rest.

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Greetings, and welcome to the forum
yasajaya :slightly_smiling_face:
Thanks for your post, and look forward to seeing you around :grinning:

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Thanks for the feedback. I tested these not long ago and they were fine, now they give me “Failed: server problem”. We’ll look into it, maybe it was an update or something.

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If you have a burning need for the other books, you can get them here:

The 2019 version of the SN is not uploaded yet but should be there in a couple of days.

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Thank you very much for the swift responses.
Thank you for the welcome.
I have now downloaded all the pubs.
Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu!

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We’re looking into the bug, but haven’t found it yet. :sob:

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Many greetings. Two points:
a) The .json bug appears to have come back again. I downloading from a Mac, using Monterey 12.0.1 through Safari Ver 15.1. The downloads have something like this: dn_en_sujato.epub.json. I tried to rename the file removing .json. It does not open in Apple Books. Any work around please?
b) Also, how do I contact a moderator directly?
Thank you.