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From Idea to Print

From Idea to Print – How to Write A Technical Article or Book and Get It Published, Roger Sanders, – 2011 If you plan to write a book you will want to read this. 350 pages.

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Technical Writing Management

Technical Writing Management A Practical Guide, Steven Schwarzman, – 2011

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Mastering InDesign

Mastering InDesign CS5 for Print Design and Production, Pariah Burke, (- 2011) A user manual for Adobe’s InDesign super word processor. 650 pages.

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EPUB

EPUB – Straight to the Point, Elizabeth Castro, ( 2011) If you are publishing an ebook, then EPUB will teach you how to format it for electronic readers such as the Kindle or PDA’s. It shows you how to use … Continue reading

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What Is Happening to News

What Is Happening to News – The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism, Jack Fuller,  University of Chicago, 2010 Written by a Pulitzer prize winning editor and publisher. Hardcover, 200 pages.

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The Yahoo! Style Guide

The Yahoo! Style Guide – The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, and Creating Content for the Digital World, Chris Barr, St Martin’s, 2010 Writers of web content will find this book useful. 500 pages.

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Online News Fundamentals

Online News Fundamentals – An Introduction to Journalism on CBCNews.ca, Blair Shewchuk, CBC, 2009 Web publishers and journalists will find this book useful, as it contains an excellent style guide. It was intended for CBC’s staff, and does not seem … Continue reading

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How Wikipedia Works

How Wikipedia Works – And How You Can Be A Part of It, Phoebe Ayers, No Starch, 2008 If you contribute articles to Wikipedia you will want to read this. 500 pages.

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Content Strategy

Content Strategy for the Web / Kristina Halvorson, New Riders, 2010 This book is for people in charge of larger web sites. Audit your current content. Analyze your ecosystems. Plan a strategy. Plan a work flow. Write content. Set up … Continue reading

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Wikipedia : the missing manual

Wikipedia : the missing manual / John Broughton, O’Reilly, 2008 Here is a book for Wikipedia authors, and for anyone who is generating content for a web site. Hmm, most of us do that now and then!

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