Category: Publishing

EPUB 3 Best Practices – A solid guide to the EPUB digital publishing process – #bookreview

by Si Dunn

EPUB 3 Best Practices Matt Garrish and Marcus Gylling (O’Reilly – paperback, Kindle) If you publish ebooks and other documents or hope to publish some soon, you definitely need to be aware of EPUB 3. “EPUB is a format for representing documents in electronic form,” the two authors of EPUB 3 Best Practices point out. “Ebook, on … Continue reading EPUB 3 Best Practices – A solid guide to the EPUB digital publishing process – #bookreview

Go APE (Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur) with Guy Kawasaki & Shawn Welch – #bookreview #amwriting

by Si Dunn

APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur—How to Publish a Book Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch (Nononina Press, Kindle) Okay, confession time. I know a bit about the book business—what used to be the book business. Years ago, I was a freelance developmental book editor for a trio of well-known publishing houses; I’ve had a couple of book agents; … Continue reading Go APE (Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur) with Guy Kawasaki & Shawn Welch – #bookreview #amwriting

Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Apricot Jam and Other Stories’ – #bookreview #fiction #Russia – updated

by Si Dunn

Apricot Jam and Other Stories By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Counterpoint, $28.00) A major literary work is now available for readers who relish the works of modern Russian writers, particularly the ones who rebelled against communism’s restrictive censorship and social, legal and economic rigidities and achieved international acclaim during the final decades of the Soviet Union. Apricot Jam and Other Stories,  an engrossing collection of eight short stories … Continue reading Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Apricot Jam and Other Stories’ – #bookreview #fiction #Russia – updated

Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Apricot Jam and Other Stories’ – #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Apricot Jam and Other Stories By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Counterpoint, $28.00) A major literary work is now available for readers who relish the works of modern Russian writers, particularly the ones who rebelled against communism’s restrictive censorship and social, legal and economic rigidities and achieved international acclaim during the final decades of the Soviet Union. Apricot Jam and Other Stories,  an engrossing collection of eight short … Continue reading Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Apricot Jam and Other Stories’ – #bookreview

Code in the Cloud: Programming Google App Engine #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Code in the Cloud: Programming Google App Engine Mark C. Chu-Carroll (O’Reilly, $32.95, paperback)  “O clouds, unfold!”           –William Blake, “Milton,” preface These days, it’s all about the cloud, many people insist. Somewhere out there in “the cloud” are the servers and programs that you are now using — or soon will be. Much of  your data … Continue reading Code in the Cloud: Programming Google App Engine #bookreview

Creating a Website: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Creating a Website: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition By Matthew MacDonald (O’Reilly, $29.99, paperback – Kindle edition, $9.99)  “If you don’t have a web presence, get one–quick!” How often have you heard or received that stern advice? The implication, of course, is that you are the compleat 21st-century loser and nobody if you don’t have your … Continue reading Creating a Website: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition #bookreview

Captain John R. Hughes: Lone Star Ranger

by Si Dunn

  Captain John R. Hughes: Lone Star Ranger Chuck Parsons (University of North Texas Press, $29.95)  John R. Hughes is often considered one of the Texas Rangers’ “Four Great Captains,” alongside William Jesse McDonald, James A. Brooks and John H. Rogers. (Chuck Norris, as Walker, Texas Ranger, figures nowhere in this equation.) Before Hughes became a Ranger … Continue reading Captain John R. Hughes: Lone Star Ranger

Will Rogers: A Political Life

by Si Dunn

Will Rogers: A Political Life By Richard D. White Jr. (Texas Tech University Press, $29.95) Oklahoma’s Will Rogers was at the peak of his international fame as an entertainer when he and pilot Wiley Post were killed in a 1935 Alaska plane crash. Yet, as this intriguing political biography shows, Rogers was much more than a … Continue reading Will Rogers: A Political Life

iPad 2: The Missing Manual (It’s here!)

by Si Dunn

iPad 2: The Missing Manual By J.D. Biersdorfer (O’Reilly, $24.99 US, $28.99 CAN) Amazon link: http://amzn.to/mwXfN6 Each new addition to O’Reilly‘s “The Missing Manual” series has a telling tagllne: “The book that should have been in the box.” Users of the iPad 2 definitely may wish they had received this book in their Apple box. It is … Continue reading iPad 2: The Missing Manual (It’s here!)