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covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics,
breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects.
The tool on the cover of eBay Hacks is a corkscrew. The exact
time origin of the corkscrew is not really known, but corkscrews
descended from bulletscrews (also called gun worms)a tool used for
cleaning jammed bullets or unspent powder out of musket barrels, which
shared a similar spiral tip. By the 17th century, the corkscrew was
fairly common, as cork stoppers were now well-established throughout
Europe, not only for wine, but for beer, medicine, and
cosmetics.
Corkscrews come in a variety of styles, including direct-pull
(the simplest), assisted-pull, single-lever, double- (or wing-) lever,
and torsional. The corkscrew pictured on the cover is most likely an
assisted-pull corkscrew; the most common ones in use today are single-
or double-lever.
Emily Quill was the production editor and copyeditor for eBay
Hacks. Sarah Sherman, Matt Hutchinson, and Claire Cloutier provided
quality control. Jamie Peppard, Mary Agner, Phil Dangler, and James
Quill provided production assistance. Julie Hawks wrote the
index.
Emma Colby designed the cover of this book, based on a series
design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a photograph taken from
the Stockbyte Work Tools CD. Emma Colby produced the cover layout
with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's Helvetica Neue and ITC Garamond
fonts.
David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was
converted by Joe Wizda, Andrew Savikas, and Julie Hawks to FrameMaker
5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason
McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML
technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is
Adobe Helvetica Neue Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's
TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were
produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand
9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. This colophon was written by David
Futato.
The online edition of this book was created by the Safari
production group (John Chodacki, Becki Maisch, and Madeleine Newell)
using a set of Frame-to-XML conversion and cleanup tools written and
maintained by Erik Ray, Benn Salter, John Chodacki, and Jeff
Liggett.
