A Book Apart
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A Book Apart
March 5th, 2024
2010 was a good year for me. I moved into a new home. Salter Cane released an album. We had a really good dConstruct. And I wrote a book.
It was HTML5 For Web Designers, the very first title from a new indie publisher called A Book Apart.
Back then, I wrote about the writing process, Jason wrote about the design, Mandy wrote about editing, and Jeffrey wrote a lovely foreword. What a dream team!
From there, A Book Apart went from strength to strength. Under Katel’s stewardship, they released the must-have books for web design and development.
One of the perks of being an author for A Book Apart is that I get a copy of every book published. I have a shelf of slim but colourful book spines.
Now, after 14 years and 60 titles, the collection is complete. A Book Apart won’t be publishing any more new books. Don’t worry—you can still buy the existing titles at all good bookshops, like bookshop.org. They made sure to prepare the way for this decision.
I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to express how grateful I am to everyone at A Book Apart. They treated me very, very well. Heck, they even let me publish a second book.
Thank you, team—it was a pleasure and honour to collaborate with you.
5:10pm
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Jason Santa Maria
@adactio Small correction! *60 titles if you include Briefs. And over that if you include second editions and the Briefs collections.
# Posted by Jason Santa Maria on Tuesday, March 5th, 2024 at 5:14pm
Jason Santa Maria
@adactio Thank you for the kind words! You were the one that helped start it all 🥲
# Posted by Jason Santa Maria on Tuesday, March 5th, 2024 at 5:14pm
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