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A Book Apart Jul 24, 2024

@cemk Nope! Just me updating some DNS stuff and waiting for them to propagate. 😅

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A Book Apart Jul 24, 2024

@cemk Drop us a line and we can help with a past order: https://abookapart.com/pages/help/#recover_past_order

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A Book Apart Mar 1, 2024

We’re starting a new chapter at @abookapart—you can read more here about it here: https://abookapart.com/blogs/press/a-new-chapter-for-a-book-apart

💛 Importantly, we’d like to thank you for supporting A Book Apart in ways big and small. Publishing independently is hard work, and we couldn’t have done it for as long as we did without such wonderful readers like you.

A New Chapter for A Book Apart

Dear Reader, We wanted to share a bit of news with you. Since opening our doors in 2010, we’ve navigated considerable change—from rising production costs, to fluctuating fulfillment needs, to evolving operational strategies. Largely, experiencing such change has inspired us to shift, flex, and transform. More recently, it is testing the sustainability of our business, and after careful consideration we

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A Book Apart Oct 3, 2023

@lukem We’re so sorry about this! We’ve just reached out via our support desk and we aim to make this right.

A Book Apart Oct 3, 2023

Ethan Marcotte Oct 3, 2023

omg baby’s first youtube book review https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YD7_kLh0i-w

thank you, maigen!

#YDATUbook #bookstodon

Why Should You Know About This Book? You Deserve a Tech Union by Ethan Marcotte

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A Book Apart Sep 28, 2023

Ethan Marcotte Sep 28, 2023

🎉📕 BOOK EVENT!

Next week, join me and @aworkinglibrary for a lively discussion about YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION, hosted by our friends at Tech Workers Coalition.

That’s 5 October 2023, at 5pm PT / 8pm ET!

[Edited to add: Sadly, Mandy and I can’t make this event after all. BUT: we’re going to plan another one very soon — stay tuned for more info!]

#YDATUbook #TechUnions #unions #1u

A Book Apart Sep 27, 2023

“Telling staff what’s what, and explaining that they can either choose to accept it, or take another path (i.e. resign), helps give staff autonomy.” Vanessa Gennarelli talks with TLNT.com about navigating “quiet cutting.”

https://www.tlnt.com/articles/quiet-cutting-is-this-the-new-name-for-job-reassignment

‘Quiet cutting’ – is this the new name for ‘job reassignment’? | TLNT

Quiet cutting is the latest HR buzz-phrase. But it signals, say some, the return to reassigning roles rather than properly cutting them. It's a strategy fraught with danger says Vanessa Gennarelli

TLNT

A Book Apart Sep 26, 2023

Seething mad that our books are being pirated and consumed by AI. We’re looking at our legal options. In the meantime, if you work for a large tech company, use those corporate cash piles to buy our books—directly from us when you can.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/books3-database-generative-ai-training-copyright-infringement/675363/

These 183,000 Books Are Fueling the Biggest Fight in Publishing and Tech

Use our new search tool to see which authors have been used to train the machines.

The Atlantic

A Book Apart Sep 26, 2023

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/books3-database-generative-ai-training-copyright-infringement/675363/

These 183,000 Books Are Fueling the Biggest Fight in Publishing and Tech

Use our new search tool to see which authors have been used to train the machines.

The Atlantic

A Book Apart Sep 19, 2023

Jeremy Keith Sep 18, 2023

Guess what? Right now, if you buy the digital edition of my book about service workers, Going Offline, then you’ll also get a paperback copy for free!

https://abookapart.com/products/going-offline

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