Working with engineers, developers, and programmers to publish a technology and development book

The author presents a `how to´ approach to producing a technology and development book, which contains a collection of papers by the technical personnel who develop a product. He focuses on the editor´s role in producing such a book but also provides information for contributing authors. He discusses much of the strategy used to produce the `IBM 9370 Enterprise System (ES): Technology and Development´ book, which contains 27 papers by 51 authors about such diverse topics as computer architecture design, circuit packaging enhancements, and operating system tools. Although the example focuses on computing systems, the principles elaborated can be used to create a technology book for almost any product