It’s our third anniversary and we want to give you a free book! Take a photo of a great reading spot this weekend and tag it #ABA3RD on Instagram. On Monday, we’ll give a book to each of our three favorites.
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It’s our third anniversary and we want to give you a free book! Take a photo of a great reading spot this weekend and tag it #ABA3RD on Instagram. On Monday, we’ll give a book to each of our three favorites.
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On May 4th, we’re celebrating our third anniversary and we want to say thank you with a special discount! Now through May 5, save 15% on any purchase from A Book Apart when you use this code: HAPPY3RD.
]]>We are excited to announce that Katel LeDu joins us today as Managing Director. Katel has spent the last several years as the Director of Photography for National Geographic's digital team and she's bringing operations, editorial and marketing chops to help A Book Apart continue to grow. You can find her here and @theledu — don't be shy, say hello!
]]>A Book Apart relies on the US Postal Service to ship books outside the United States. Unfortunately, the USPS has recently increased rates for international shipping, and we have sadly been forced to increase our rates accordingly.
]]>As A Book Apart heads into its fourth year, we are looking to expand our publishing program and grow our audience. But to do that we need help. We are looking for a Managing Director to join our team and help us grow efficiently while keeping our sights on the high quality texts that our readers expect of us. Is that you? Join us!
]]>This Friday, November 30, 2012, celebrate the Sixth Annual International Blue Beanie Day for web standards with us. Profess your love of an open web by adding a blue beanie to your avatar, tweeting a tweet or two, and by sharing a self-portrait—with a blue cap, of course—to the Sixth International Blue Beanie Day 2012 Flickr pool. Visit zeldman.com/bbd for more information and instructions.
]]>Update: We raised $6,600 for the Red Cross! Thanks to everyone who participated. As we've watched friends and neighbors dig out from Hurricane Sandy, the A Book Apart team has been moved by the enormous effort and the goodwill of the many volunteers and city employees working to get the area back on its feet. In an effort to contribute to that recovery, A Book Apart will be donating 15% of sales on Monday, November 5th, to the Red Cross. All orders placed before midnight EST will qualify.
]]>After a brief delay, we're pleased to announce that Karen McGrane's Content Strategy for Mobile is on sale now. A special double-issue of A List Apart features an excerpt from the book plus a bonus article from Karen: Uncle Sam Wants You (to Optimize Your Content for Mobile).
]]>We have decided to delay the release of Karen McGrane's Content Strategy for Mobile while our friends and readers recover from the storm. A Book Apart's New York staff is safe and sound; our hearts go out to those affected. We urge friends from afar to donate to the Red Cross (text REDCROSS to 90999 to donate $10).
]]>We've just added simple "Send to Readmill" buttons to our download pages. If you're an iPad reader, this should make it even easier to begin highlighting and annotating on Readmill.
]]>Our readers are our favorite people, and our customer advocates are our front line in helping them when they need it. Come work for A Book Apart.
]]>“All the mistakes I learnt over 10 years of business, rolled into something you could read in a day or so.” Read the full review.
]]>Luke Wroblewski, author of Mobile First, explains the benefits in this .net magazine interview. Read the full interview.
]]>Shannon Smith reviews Design Is a Job for The Designer's Review of Books and concludes it's a 5 out of 5. “I can tell you that the first thing I did after reading Design Is a Job is raise my rates.” Read the full review.
]]>Full Stop Interactive reviews Design Is a Job and concludes, “It’s very good. It’s funny and poignant and incisive. But more than that, it’s important.” Read the full review.
]]>Forbes’ dishes on Chip Kidd’s tie and Mike Monteiro’s new book. “[Design Is a Job] is a brilliant how-to manual for how to be a contemporary designer and get paid for the privilege.” (Anthony Wing Kosner)
]]>The long wait is finally over: Mike Monteiro’s Design Is a Job is on sale now. Read an excerpt from the book in Issue No. 348 of A List Apart, the magazine for people who make websites.
]]>We have immediate need for several part-time freelance positions. These gigs are remote — you can be anywhere in the world, and work any time of day, provided you are available for regular Skype calls with our core team in New York. Read on to learn more.
]]>We’ve teamed up with United Pixelworkers to release dashing A Book Apart tees, featuring our laurel on a Tri-Coffee American Apparel tri-blend tee. Orders are limited, so get yours now!
]]>Forbes’ magazine looks at why some companies’ websites are more memorable than others, with a shoutout to Aarron Walter’s Designing for Emotion from A Book Apart. “Walter’s approach is direct, rigorous, at times scientific and filled with practical insight and humor.” (Anthony Wing Kosner)
]]>Our editor and co-founder, Mandy Brown, sat down with The Great Discontent for an interview on design, editing, being creative with words, and more. In addition to her work on A Book Apart, Mandy serves as a contributing editor for A List Apart and Communications Director for Typekit. She also writes about the reading experience on A Working Library.
]]>Our publisher and web design pioneer, Jeffrey Zeldman, will be the first inductee to the SXSW Interactive Hall of Fame in 2012. In addition to co-founding A Book Apart, Zeldman is publisher of A List Apart, founder and executive creative director of Happy Cog, and author of the foundational web standards text, Designing With Web Standards. Congratulations, Jeffrey!
]]>The Financial Times discusses how a major hotel chain designed its way out of the “desktop vs. mobile” mentality by incorporating responsive design, “an approach that proposes that the design of a website should respond to the user’s behaviour and environment, based on screen size, platform and orientation,” as the paper puts it. Ethan Marcotte, author of the best-selling book, helps the business reader understand how responsive design works.
]]>A Book Apart has published six books since its founding in 2010; four of them have found their way into .net Magazine’s Top 25 Books for Web Designers and Developers feature. The winning books were Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte (ranked #2 out of 25), CSS3 for Web Designers by Dan Cederholm, Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski, and The Elements of Content Strategy by Erin Kissane. The list was compiled by consulting with leading designers, developers, and creative directors. Congratulations, Erin, Luke, Dan, and Ethan!
]]>Aarron Walter’s Designing for Emotion and Luke Wroblewski’s Mobile First are now on sale and better together. Read excerpts in issue No. 337 of A List Apart or buy both and save.
]]>“Now you can enjoy our high-quality journalism on any digital device with a browser — always in a clean, reader friendly format.” So proclaims the responsively redesigned Boston Globe. Not only was the venerable paper’s digital reworking inspired by Ethan Marcotte’s book of the same name, but Ethan himself had a hand in the redesign! Responsive design: it’s not just for blogs any more.
]]>Last year, in partnership with An Event Apart, Mix Online debuted the 10K Apart contest. The challenge was simple: build the best application you can with no more than 10K of code. The contest was a smash hit, reaping 367 entries in less than a month and 11K (sorry) tweets in less than a year. This year’s contest ups the ante with more than a nod to Ethan Marcotte’s Responsive Web Design. Without further ado, say hello to 10K Apart: The Responsive Edition.
]]>Ethan Marcotte’s much-anticipated Responsive Web Design is finally here; read an excerpt from Chapter 3 in issue No. 328 of A List Apart for people who make websites.
]]>Our friends at MailChimp invited us to talk about A Book Apart—how we got started, what we’re trying to do, and why it matters. Co-founders Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria, and Mandy Brown join author Erin Kissane in this brief video story.
]]>Listen in as Erin Kissane talks content strategy with host Dan Benjamin on the Daily Edition.
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