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Saturday, December 15, 2007

"Build Your Own PC"

By JingleBerry, I'm getting good at this ferreting-for-blooks business!

Okay, so I made a tiny mistake. Morris Rosenthal sent this correction:
"The first book I sold to McGraw-Hill was The Hand-Me-Down PC, which is long since out of print. Taught me quite a bit about titling. I insisted on "Hand-Me-Down" but it turned out to be unattractive to bookstore browsers vs specific competing titles like "Repairing Your PC", "Upgrading Your PC", etc.. The title "Build Your Own PC" was the second book I sold them, sold over 100,000 copies so far, translated to a half dozen languages, and also started with a draft published online.