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About the Author
Michael E. Cohen lives on the southwest corner of the intersection of technology and the liberal arts. He’s taught writing and literature courses, programmed for the Deep Space Network, designed and implemented instructional word processors, produced interactive CD‑ROMs, helped create the first commercial ebooks, developed and documented commercial software for an international corporation, written a novel, drawn a number of remarkably bad cartoons, and advised dozens of humanities professors on all matters digital.
As a young man, Michael set out to be a professional dilettante and, after years of struggle, succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.
Acknowledgments
I must thank this guy named Joe, who claims to be my publisher, for suffering through the long delays and scheduling stress that my project inflicted on him, and even more for providing useful feedback and acting as a sounding board. Additional thanks to my brother Norman, a very knowledgable long-time Apple user in both personal and professional settings, for reading early portions of the manuscript and providing invaluable tips and sanity checks. Neither Joe nor Norman should be held responsible for any (if not many) errors in analysis I committed in this book.
About the Publisher
alt concepts inc., publisher of Take Control Books, is operated by Joe Kissell and Morgen Jahnke, who acquired the ebook series from TidBITS Publishing Inc.’s owners, Adam and Tonya Engst, in May 2017. Joe brings his decades of experience as author of more than 60 books on tech topics (including many popular Take Control titles) to his role as Publisher. Morgen’s professional background is in development work for nonprofit organizations, and she employs those skills as Director of Marketing and Publicity. Joe and Morgen live in San Diego with their two children and their cat.