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January 24, 2008
Beautiful photo of a book being proofed!
My first publishing related job was in a printing press for CP/M (Commercial Press/Monterey, we published Digital Research's documentation in the early 80s), and I was always fascinated to see how the pages were laid out and printed on these huge pieces of paper.
Somewhat reminiscent of that, Harold Davis just posted a great photo of the proofs of his newest book, Light and Exposure for Digital Photographers, spread out over his living room floor.
Check out the photo and backstory on Harold's blog.
Update, 1-28: this is cool, Harold's Book Imposition photo was featured on Galleycat this morning A Quick Peak Inside the Sausage Factory
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January 23, 2008
Client news and notes
Congratulations to Janet Rae-Dupree, who penned a fascinating article about innovation in the New York Times, December 30, 2007, Innovative Minds Don't Think Alike, the first in her brand new NYT column.
Congratulations to Rich Wagner on the publication of his newest book, Professional iPhone and iPod touch Programming: Building Applications for Mobile Safari, from Wrox.
Congratulations to David Boles and Janna Sweenie, the authors of Hand Jive on completing another American Sign Language title, Picture Yourself Signing ASL, Level 1, for Course Technology.
As usual, I have plenty of new "for Dummies" titles to announce --
Congratulations to John Mueller on finishing his Windows Server 2008 Desk Reference All In One for Dummies.
Congratulations to Larry Helyer and Rich Wagner on delivering The Book of Revelation for Dummies.
A big congratulations to musician and composer Scott Jarrett and writer Holly Day on the publication of Music Composition for Dummies!
And, finally, for a good time, and just in time for Oscar ;-) be sure to check out Ali Rogers' annual Oscar spoof, The Felixes!
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January 8, 2008
Happy New Year! Client News and Notes, January 2008
Happy 2008, folks! This is officially my 200th blog post, and although this has become mostly a "news" blog, I like sharing my agency news and will continue to do so.
I want to thank everyone who has put his or her faith in me over the last three years. I'm having a great time in doing this on my own and I couldn't do it without great clients.
I'm happy to announce a few new first books!
Congratulations to USA Today finance columnist Matt Krantz on the publication of his first book, Investing Online for Dummies, from Wiley.
Congratulations to Swain Scheps on the publication of his first solo book, Business Intelligence for Dummies, also from Wiley.
Congratulations to expert Lynda.com video trainer Chad Perkins on the release of his first book, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended for 3d and Video, from Adobe Press/Peachpit.
Congratulations to David Boles on the publication of his newest book, Picture Yourself Learning Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard, just released by Course Technology.
Congratulations to John Paul Mueller on completing his newest book, Administering Windows 2008 Server Core, coming in February from Sybex.
Congrats also to Barrie Sosinsky on completing his newest book, Windows Server 2008 Implementation and Administration, also from Sybex.
Congratulations to Bill Loguidice and Matt Barton on the second article (of six, eventually) in their Gaming Platforms series with Gamasutra, A History of Gaming Platforms: The Vectrex.
A big congratulations to prolific photographer and author Harold Davis and his talented designer, wife, and co-packager, Phyllis Davis, on delivering two new photography titles: the techniques title Practical Artistry: Light and Exposure for Digital Photographers, to be published by O'Reilly Media this Spring; and their new coffee table book, the gorgeous 100 Views of the Golden Gate, also publishing this Spring, from Wilderness Press.
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