Fruits of my labor on Amazon.com

donaldgarber — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:51:02 +0000

One of my major work projects at the Fremont offices of Aquent Studios in Seattle was working on Microsoft Office ‘Greenbooks’. These are heavy, in-depth books for IT professionals, guiding them to squeeze every ounce of features from enterprise software packages. Many in-house writers put together books for on-demand publishing for sale at Amazon.com. Yours truly did a lot of formatting, layout work, and editing to bring these books to market.

The first batch of eight or so of these Greenbooks is now available for sale on Amazon.com. While I helped create them using tools such as Microsoft DX Studio, Word 2007, Adobe Acrobat, I won’t see any credits, of course…

Here’s the cover design of the newly released Greenbooks, one of the large ones, Deployment for Office SharePoint Server 2007:

Deployment for Office SharePoint Server 2007 Greenbook. Isn't he handsome? I'm so proud.

Here’s an interesting tidbit: However long the final pre-pdf version was, the print-on-demand version had to be numbered as a multiple of 16.

Professional blog/site

donaldgarber — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:28:42 +0000

I’m Donald Garber, and on these pages I shall display my professional vocational successes, failures, abilities, and blunders.