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More things to consider including. Batching a bunch in this issue.
Please add a comment here if you have other suggestions! (Will track and add credits, too.)
- Write Useful Books
- Write a Must-Read Book
- Writing to Be Understood
- The art of the publisher https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374188238/
Larger lists:
Reading
- How to Read a Book (from Erin Frey)
History:
Editing
- https://www.janefriedman.com/comprehensive-guide-to-finding-working-with-editors/ (has a nice summary of 4 kinds of editors)
Writing:
- https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Learn-Write-Clearly-Subject-ebook/dp/B00BOQEBFE/
- Doris Lessing, The Art of Fiction No. 102
History of industry:
- https://www.biblio.com/book/dolphin-journal-making-books-volume-iv/d/774387126
- 📖The Bookman’s Glossary — The classic 20th century reference by Bowker.
Self-publishing
Industry:
- Wikipedia: List of all-time best-selling books
- https://www.janefriedman.com/key-book-publishing-path/
- Harvard DigiPub podcast
- Publishers Lunch
Recent events:
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-the-publishing-world-is-staying-afloat-during-the-pandemic_n_5ec431c9c5b69985547b5a5b
- New realities in book publishing in the post-COVID world, a speculative rant from host Peter Goodman - Inside Independent Publishing (with IBPA)
Companies, Products, and Resources
Typography:
- Daniel Berkeley Updike, Printing Types: Their History, Fporms, and Use, 1922 — A classic historical survey, now in public domain.
- Alexander Lawson, Anatomy of a Typeface, 1990 — A modern survey for a general audience on type design and type designers.
- https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Type-Karen-Cheng/dp/0300111509/
- https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopaedia-Typefaces-Berry-Johnson-Jaspert/dp/1844036707/
- https://www.amazon.com/Visual-History-Type-Paul-McNeil/dp/1780679769/
- https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Type-2nd-revised-expanded/dp/1568989695/
Technology:
- Paginated CSS etc. like https://writeusefulbooks.com/
From Hope Hackett:
- Elizabeth Eisenstein The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
From Justin Seymour:
- Text Patterns blog by Alan Jacobs. Mostly commentary on reading and writing technologies: http://text-patterns.thenewatlantis.com. It is no longer updated, but there are lots of interesting threads to follow if you page back through his posts.
- RIT's Future of Reading Symposium. Hosted in 2010, a little dated. Great lectures on the future of reading, books as medium, publishing, etc. Johanna Drucker's lecture is right up your alley as is N. Kathrine Hayles: https://www.rit.edu/carycollection/future-reading-symposium
- Another talk from Johanna Drucker, Technologies of Text: From Printed Page Through Digital Age. Fascinating look at indices, marginalia, how knowledge talks to each other through pages, how all of this comes together on the web: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwFs6S4kS68
- Book: A Grammar of Typography: http://argetsingerbooks.com/grammar-of-typography
- Book: Structure of the Visual Book: https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/1299/
- Book: Orality and Literacy, The Technologizing of the Word. Less about bookmaking, more about language and meaning making: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/orality-and-literacy-walter-j-ong/1111759829?ean=978041553838
- And last one, references on all typography: https://booksongraphicdesign.com/
From Rachel Meier:
- You might want to consider adding OLC companies and promo agencies that are targeted to NF authors (Fortier PR Worthy Marketing Group etc; if this category is of interest I can send you more).
Writing/grammar
The Industry
Reading
Book Design/Typography
- color and visual presentations
- Thinking with Type
- (You may want to Update your link for Elements of Typographic Style to the IP one)
NF/Writing
Fiction/Writing
Ephemera
More from Tiago Forte
- https://fortelabs.co/blog/the-future-of-ebooks/
- https://fortelabs.co/blog/the-case-for-traditional-publishing-for-full-stack-freelancers/
- https://fortelabs.co/blog/my-10-step-book-publishing-strategy/
- https://praxis.substack.com/p/introducing-how-to-land-a-book-deal
More on Amazon/KDP/AMS
- https://courses.kindlepreneur.com/ and other things from Kindlepreneur
- https://booksgosocial.com/
- https://kindlepreneur.com/amazon-book-description-generator/
Credits:
- Justin Seymour
- Hope Hackett
- Rachel Meier
- Erin Frey
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