These extracts are from Craig Mod’s excellent essay Let’s Talk about Margins, one of the many things worth reading at craigmod.com. Recommended. I saw a… Read More »Design Matters (19): Craig Mod on margins and attention to detail
More from Allen Downey (full version – recommended – here). A free license is not just a different way to distribute the same product; a… Read More »Allen Downey on the cool things about free books (2)
I love this story. Millions of people have learnt to program in Python using Think Python and its derivatives… not bad for a book that… Read More »Allen Downey on the cool things about free books (1)
They say that publishing works on this basis, with the most successful books subsidising the disappointments. Within the limits of publishing’s Rule Number One (“Remain… Read More »“The successes pay for the failures”
If you’ve ever wondered if you’re looking at (or writing) a forward, preface, introduction or something else, you may find this helpful: Parts of a… Read More »Resource: the parts of a book