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# The Author Experience – Interview with Rick Yagodich
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While I was at Information Development World, I had a conversation with Rick Yagodich about his new book,* [Author Experience](http://xmlpress.net/content-strategy/author-experience/)*. This is one of the first books in The Content Strategy series of books. During our conversation, Rick and I talked about the following topics:

- Why do people have such poor experiences with CMSs?

- What are key considerations authors need in a CMS?

- How important is it to see relationships among content in a CMS?

- How important are workflows in a CMS, and why are they so problematic?

- Can authors have good experiences with their content *without* having a CMS?

- Do CMSs inject tags into your code to handle styles and IDs? Does this make it more difficult to work with the code?

- How do you figure out details about CMS vendors such as cost, features, etc, when this information is rarely published?

- How does AX differ from a treatment of CMSs?

- How can we give so much emphasis on AX over UX? Isn't UX more important?

- Why did you pick this topic? What about your background or experiences made you particularly interested in the author experience?