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Setting up for ebooks on EA blogs

Tom G — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:56:07 +0000

I’m currently sifting through my past blog-posts of the past five years or so, with a view to republishing some of them in ebook-format, to make them more accessible in a more convenient and more portable form.

So far there are well over 400 blog-posts here on enterprise-architecture and related themes, plus a few more on the companion Sidewise weblog. That’s a lot of material – probably somewhere upward of half a million words, with literally hundreds of diagrams as well. Kinda big, even in EPUB format, and not easy to navigate in one go, given that that the various themes have been weaving through each other in different forms and with different emphases over the years.

So the idea at present is to publish them in the form of small anthologies, each of perhaps 15-30 related posts that focus on a single theme at a time. Some posts might appear in more than one anthology, but that probably won’t matter too much, I hope? – especially as keeping it simple will keep the costs right down, to perhaps $2.00-3.00 (£1.50-2.00) each.

Themes for the first few anthologies would include:

the Enterprise Canvas set, including the simplified notation for Enterprise Canvas
rethinking Zachman and the TOGAF ADM for whole-enterprise use
foresight, futures and ‘really-big-picture’ enterprise-architecture
the human side of enterprise-architecture, including management-structures and tacit-knowledge
narrative and story in enterprise-architecture
business-architecture and enterprise-architecture (including ‘translation’ between Business Model Canvas and enterprise-architecture notations such as Archimate and Enterprise Canvas)
taxonomy, ontology, (meta)metamodels and toolsets for enterprise-architecture
sensemaking with context-space mapping and SCAN

These should start to appear on Amazon and elsewhere in the next few weeks – I’ll post more details here as they become available, of course.

Any other requests for ebook anthologies? Any comments about pricing, formats, availability or anything else? Over to you, if you would?

Many thanks, anyway.

‘Pendulum’ and ‘Workbook’ back in print

Tom G — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:26:03 +0000

Yup, they’re back already from the printers (thank you Lightning Source for a service much quicker than your listed ’10 business days’!) – Elements of Pendulum Dowsing and The Dowser’s Workbook are now officially back in print.

Links on the Tetradian Books website also point to the (free) e-book versions:

Elements of Pendulum Dowsing description
The Dowser’s Workbook description

Will probably take me another week at least to get the e-commerce section of the site up and working. But judging by the speed with which Real Enterprise Architecture turned up on Amazon, they should also be orderable direct from Amazon, Borders, Barnes&Noble and the others with the next few days, too.

Please pass around to your various acquaintances, if you would? – many thanks!

Dowsing books up on book-site

Tom G — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:30:25 +0000

I’ve now put up PDF e-books of two upcoming reprints on the Tetradian Books website:

E-book for Elements of Pendulum Dowsing
E-book for The Dowser’s Workbook

Share and enjoy?

(Physical books should be available by the second week of May, in time for the Megalithomania conference in Glastonbury on May 17-18. They’ll be priced at £9.95 each, plus P&P – the e-books are free, but you can’t print or copy from them.)