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Comment on Search User Interfaces named a best book of 2009 by Marti

Marti — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:06:33 +0000

I’ll ask my editor and get back to you via email.

Comment on Search User Interfaces named a best book of 2009 by Charles Knight

Charles Knight — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:55:34 +0000

Are review copies of the physical book available?

Thanks,

Charles Knight
Search Editor
TheNextWeb.com
http://thenextweb.com/search
charles@search.thenextweb.com

Comment on How did you convince your publisher to let you put your book online for free by Review: Search User Interfaces « EBI Interfaces

Review: Search User Interfaces « EBI Interfaces — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:06:38 +0000

[...] better… in an effort to maximise the impact of her writing, Hearst was able to convince CUP to allow her to also make the book available for free, in HTML format, on her website, so you [...]

Comment on Search User Interfaces named a best book of 2009 by marti

marti — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:32:37 +0000

Thanks, Daniel. And thank you also for pointing the whole world to the recent tech talk I gave summarizing some parts of Search User Interfaces. Your blog really makes things go viral.

Comment on Search User Interfaces named a best book of 2009 by Daniel Tunkelang

Daniel Tunkelang — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:19:22 +0000

Congrats! And certainly there’s no harm if people looking for SEO tips end up learning how to make their sites more optimized for human users.

Comment on Converting the Book to an HTML web site by Marti

Marti — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:45:50 +0000

Thank you, Erinah. I too feel that html is generally easier to work with, and of course it is better for search engine crawling!

Comment on Converting the Book to an HTML web site by Erinah

Erinah — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:46:31 +0000

It’s great that the online version of the book was published this way, in html, not using e.g. pdfs, embedded readers. It is easier to read and search on any of my devices, much more comfortable.

Comment on Search User Interfaces is Shipping! by Marti

Marti — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:28:14 +0000

Allan, thank you for ordering a copy! I hope you find it useful.

Comment on How did you convince your publisher to let you put your book online for free by Marti

Marti — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:26:14 +0000

James, yes, you’re right, I didn’t spend much time converting the index from latex to html, and while doing it I lost subheading indentation. Because the online version doesn’t have page numbers is was generally hard to do the index accurately; I am hoping people rely on the search box for the book version and mainly use the index for the hardcopy version. But I may go back and fix this at some point.

I was using a version of Cambridge’s style file for latex; I didn’t know of the existence of CUP-XML. Eventually I’ll make a more printable version of the online book available, maybe in a year.

Comment on How did you convince your publisher to let you put your book online for free by James Lamb

James Lamb — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:52:26 +0000

I notice in the HTML index to your book you have lost all the subheadings from the index as shown in the Amazon “view inside” version. I does mean that many topics are missing from the index – I presume this was accidental?
Also, was your book done using CUP-XML? If so, couldn’t CUP create an html version effectively?