Producing Books for an International Audience

[Betsy Maaks <bmaaks -at- TELLABS -dot- COM>]

Elizabeth,

One of the best books on writing for an international audience is
Nancy Hoft's _International Technical Communication_ by
Wiley and Sons, 1995. It covers pretty well everything about
the topic. The least of your concerns is plastic binding. Find a
customer, vendor, VAR or salesperson from your company who
will be marketing in the target country/countries for assistance
in the type of binding. As always, you need to know your
audience. Nancy's book has a chapter about Performing an
International-User Analysis. But also read the book cover-
to-cover for a full scope of what can be done for a quality
effort.

STC has a society-level special interest group (SIG) just
on this topic. Call the STC office in Virginia for membership
details. The ITC SIG has a quarterly newsletter, a listserver
and often has additional projects on the topic. It's well worth
joining.

I hope this helps, and good luck!
Betsy Maaks
reply to: bmaaks -at- tellabs -dot- com

PS. Nancy and others also offer seminars on the topic. Look
at your local listings for the various training companies like
Solutions, etc.

You wrote:

Date:    Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:36:41 -0500
From:    Elizabeth Johnson <johnson -at- SKY -dot- SKY -dot- COM>
Subject: Producing Books for an International Audience

Hi,

I am looking for information regarding producing books for an
International
audience. What types of things do you need to consider?

Specifically, are there issues around the characteristics of the paper
manual?
Can you use plastic bindings?

Thanks,
Elizabeth Johnson
johnson -at- sky -dot- com

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