Pogue's Magic Formula
by Derrick StoryNetwork Newsletter for 12/17/2002
Dear Reader,
Here's a book-related note that will probably surprise you. Of our current top ten best-selling books among our major distributors last week, five of those titles are from the Missing Manual series:
#1 "Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition"
#3 "Windows XP Home Edition: The Missing Manual"
#4 "iMovie 2: The Missing Manual"
#8 "iPhoto: The Missing Manual"
#9 "Dreamweaver MX: The Missing Manual"
The O'Reilly/Pogue Press tandem has become a dominant force in the consumer tech-publishing market, and the man behind the Missing Manual formula is David Pogue.
Now, even if you've never read a Missing Manual, you may find some of David's insights valuable as you prepare to write about technology--whether it be a book, an article, a white paper, FAQs, or even a detailed email to coworkers about how to do something complicated. Through his writing and editing, David Pogue strives to make the complicated, understandable; the dull, lively and entertaining.
David covers much of this ground in a recent two-part interview that's running on www.missingmanual.com. If you're interested in better technical communications, you'll probably find some of David's insights quite helpful.
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Until next week,
Derrick
Derrick Story
O'Reilly Network Managing Editor
derrick@oreilly.com
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