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In the beginning...
In the beginning...
In 1989, the Publishers Invoicing and Information Generation System (PIIGS) was developed for Steve and Lisa Carlson at Upper Access Publishing to track orders, inventory, and to calculate royalties.
Ron Lawrence joined the effort in 1990, with an extensive background in software engineering and manufacturing systems. PiiGS Version 2 was a complete rewrite of the original, and In 1998, PiiGS was renamed as Publishers’ Assistant.
Ron has been the principal developer and support for PubAssist ever since.
Ron and Steve continued to work together for nearly 30 years, until Steve’s retirement in 2018.
Through these years, Publishers’ Assistant has met the many challenges in this enigmatic business. The focus, however, has always been to provide serious capabilities at a price that independent publishers can afford.
“Upper Access helped develop the early versions of Publishers’ Assistant through the early 1990s because we–and other small book publishers–needed an affordable business program that is specific to publishing. Since then, Ron has been fully responsible for what PubAssist has become–a software program that has evolved to meet the constant changes in both computer technology and the publishing industry. The continuing success of our publishing business would not have been possible without Ron’s hard work on the software that is central to our daily work.”
Steve Carlson, Upper Access, Inc.
And now? We will do it again!
And now? We will do it again!
Announcing...
Announcing...
Illumination is the next generation of PubAssist. It is a completely new and web-based technology, able to be deployed on your server of choice! Now all computers (Mac's, PC's, and phones) can access Publishers' Assistant,
BUT!...
Your data will still be your own!
Read more about Illumination...Your data will still be your own!
About Ron Lawrence
About Ron Lawrence
...still here, still devoted to small busineses, still taking support calls for Publishers' Assistant, and still the principal developer for Illumination! Ron is a full-stack web-application developer employing all levels of web technology. Illumination uses the LAMP platform and is based on the RAPIDS framework.
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