More items to consider

[jlevy]

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:

• https://www.janefriedman.com/resources/

Reading

• How to Read a Book (from Erin Frey)

History:

• https://www.amazon.com/Gutenberg-Revolution-Printing-Changed-History/dp/0553819666

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

• https://leanpub.com/every-book-is-a-startup

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

• Independent Publishers Group (IPG)
• Publishing Professionals Network
• Bowker’s ISBN page

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

• Woe is I
• Pleasure of the Text

The Industry

• Bookscan 
• Publishers Weekly
• Shelf Awareness

Reading

• Ex Libris

Book Design/Typography

• color and visual presentations
  • Envisioning Information
  • Interaction of Color
• Thinking with Type
• (You may want to Update your link for Elements of Typographic Style to the IP one)

NF/Writing

• Art of... Series

Fiction/Writing

• Burning Down the House

Ephemera

• Latin for the Illiterati
• Miniature Books

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

[jlevy]

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[AlejandroReBa]

Hi, thanks for the list! I would like to include "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb"
Wikipedia may give you an initial idea about the topic. Regards.