Stories

A Book Apart:

Old-School Publishing For The New World

directed by Josh Rosenbaum

Founded by A List Apart’s Jeffrey Zeldman, Mandy Brown, and Jason Santa Maria, A Book Apart publishes “brief books for people who make websites.” The topics—like HTML5, CSS3, content strategy, and responsive web design—require more space than an article but not as much space as a traditional book, so they’re easy reads at around 100 pages. We talked to A Book Apart’s co-founders, as well as The Elements of Content Strategy writer Erin Kissane, about the publishing system that Kissane so perfectly calls “old-school publishing for the new world.”

Designing For Emotion, by MailChimp’s own Aarron Walter, is available now.