Category: Publishing
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Book By Its Cover
Book By Its Cover is a glorious new blog devoted to the beauty of books.
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Future of Online News
Many website designers run their own niche blog, and if the content is unique enough, a designer might be able to sell subscriptions to it. The content has to be very high quality, though, and…
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Zeldman on Publishing
P Is for Publishing. And publishing, as you’ve heard, is dying. … But “the printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone,” Zeldman says, “either because books don’t require…
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Digital books: the medium changes the message
“Content with form—Definite Content—is almost totally the opposite of Formless Content. Most texts composed with images, charts, graphs or poetry fall under this umbrella. It may be reflowable, but depending on how it’s reflowed, inherent…
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Doctorow on Pricing
In Publishers Weekly, blogger, novelist, and bon vivant Cory Doctorow discusses price discrimination(“the idea that you make more money by segmenting your customers based on how much they’re willing to spend”) and demand elasticity (“the straightforward…
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Tumblr v. Posterous
Business Insider: Why Tumblr Is Kicking Posterous’s Ass Posted via web from Does This Zeldman Make My Posterous Look Fat?
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Books Not Dead
Headed to SXSW Interactive? Concerned about the future of books, magazines, and websites? Attend “New Publishing and Web Content,” a panel I’m hosting on the creative, strategic, and marketing challenges of traditional and new (internet…
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Hear This!
Dan Benjamin, creator of wonderful websites, apps, broadcasts, and platforms and longtime friend of A List Apart and your host, introduces a new venture. 5 by 5 Studios is a new internet broadcasting network, home…
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Posthumous Hosting and Digital Culture
THE DEATHS of Leslie Harpold and Brad Graham, in addition to being tragic and horrible and sad, have highlighted the questionable long-term viability of blogs, personal sites, and web magazines as legitimate artistic and literary…
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A List Apart Arabic
Since 1998, A List Apart has sought to serve the international web design and development community with educational, insightful, and sometimes visionary articles on web standards, emerging ideas and technologies, and best practices in content,…
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Quote and Comment
Actually, the crowd Kurtz was talking about is people who won’t patronize pay sites; that’s not a fallacy, it’s just… what they do. And if you charge your traffic goes down. That’s not a delusion…
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On Self-Promotion
You are a shameless self promoter!” he said. I can’t speak to the “shame” part, but for the rest: guilty as charged. Self-promotion may appear revolting, but it’s the only promotion that’s guaranteed in this…
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As we were
Title images from the early years of A List Apart “for people who make websites” are now available for your viewing pleasure.
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Mission of Promo
The third edition of Designing With Web Standards has hit the shelves; excerpts and interviews are hitting digital airwaves everywhere. Among the latest: Creative Expert interviews Zeldman and Marcotte about DWWS3e, live, with call-in questions.…
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Search Party
Triple Issue No. 292 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, is all about search.