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Re:Show HN: From Zero to the Appstore - My ebook on HTML5 mo... by meleemistress on Monday April 22, 2013 @10:16AM (#5589311)
Looks like it has some good info, but you need a copy editor. If I'm going to shell out $30 for a book, I don't want to see typos and strange run-on sentences. Those sorts of things make the book much harder to read.

For example, take your home page: "You’re interested in making games or other interactive HTML5 apps, but you don’t quite know were to start and what you will need to accomplish that."

That should be "where", not "were".

Re:Show HN: From Zero to the Appstore - My ebook on HTML5 mo... by dubcanada on Monday April 22, 2013 @10:52AM (#5589484)
I have to agree, you could find a English copywriter fairly easy to do a quick read over.

For example...

The canvas is a native HTML-element that can be used to draw and alternate images and render its output to an HTML document. Drawing-methods can be accessed directly through the context of the canvas, however EaselJS will add a layer of abstraction to the canvas by automatically handling all drawing calls so that all you have to do is placing the images and calling stage.update().

"so that all you have to do is >placing< the images"

"that can be used to draw and >alternate< images >and< render its output" (missing comma, run on sentence, alternate is probably the wrong word, I'd use change or replace.)

"The Stage is >so to say< the bottom-most container." That doesn't make any sense to me, I'm Canadian so maybe it is a saying elsewhere but I've never heard "is so to say".

Re:Show HN: From Zero to the Appstore - My ebook on HTML5 mo... by olsn on Monday April 22, 2013 @12:59PM (#5590379)
Okay, yes I can see why that could be an issue - I will look into getting a copywriter - do you have any experience/suggestions for that, what is a reasonable price?