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About the Author
Glenn Fleishman never stops writing about technology and its implications. He’s in his third decade of writing for publications as varied as American History, Fast Company, the Economist, Smithsonian magazine, Increment, the New York Times, Macworld, and TidBITS, and many others. In 2012, he was a two-game champion on Jeopardy!
Acknowledgments
Thank you to the many people who provided advice, input, and testing time for this book to ensure a varied point of view and lots of tips. A special thanks to folks who agreed to let me include their name and Zoom preview in session screen captures: Greg Anderson, Tiff Arment, Chris Carr, Josh Centers, Rebekah Denn, Gretchen Donart, Malcolm Dickinson, Scott Duggan, Adam Engst, Erika Ensign, Ryan Fegley, Bill Hirt, Amy LaMere, Ian Murren, Chuck La Tournous, Rob Pegoraro, Brad Peniston, Todd Picard, Nicholas Scott, Mark Siple, andBrett Terpstra, and Annette Wierstra.
Thank you, Joe Kissell, for your constant encouragement and endless work on behalf of us authors!
Shameless Plug
I don’t write just ebooks—I also produce ones of actual physical matter, too. My latest is Six Centuries of Type & Printing, a title that traces the technology and advancements in making type, composing it into words and pages, putting ink on it, and pressing it to paper from before Gutenberg’s perfection of metal printing types through the digital era in which type transcends the printed page.
The type for the book was composed on a hot-metal Monotype casting system and printed by letterpress in London. The page is a 64-page cloth-bound hardcover book with foil stamping that comes in its own slipcase, bound in Germany. It unfolds nearly 600 years of printing and is a work of art in its own right. You can order a copy directly.
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.