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From Idea to Print

rleir — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:20:44 +0000

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.

Technical Writing Management

rleir — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:22:51 +0000

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

Mastering InDesign

rleir — Tue, 17 May 2011 15:54:39 +0000

Mastering InDesign CS5 for Print Design and Production, Pariah Burke, (- 2011)

A user manual for Adobe’s InDesign super word processor. 650 pages.

EPUB

rleir — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:46:38 +0000

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 Word or InDesign to create your files, then how to correct and tailor them for publishing. Well written, 200 pages.

What Is Happening to News

rleir — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:21:20 +0000

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.

The Yahoo! Style Guide

rleir — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:44:06 +0000

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.

Online News Fundamentals

rleir — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:54:10 +0000

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 to be available at CBC’s online store, but I am glad that a copy got acquired by the OPL. Canadian taxpayers, who are paying CBC’s expenses, might be more satisfied after reading this. 300 pages.

How Wikipedia Works

rleir — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:26:55 +0000

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.

Content Strategy

rleir — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:29:02 +0000

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 the tools and channels for delivery. Measure the results. Maintain the site. This slim (150 pages) book is well written.

Wikipedia : the missing manual

rleir — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:44:17 +0000

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!