Over the past three years I’ve encountered dozens of people around the world who purchased the first edition of the CMS Bible. Invariably, their copies are dog-eared and wellthumbed, because like any good reference, this book delves deeply into a complex subject that trails a surprisingly long history behind it. Although many people associate “CMS” with the Web, the practice of content management goes back at least a couple of decades. For as long as we have had electronic documents, people have struggled with how best to manage the information those documents contained. Early adherents of content management could be found especially among the technical documentation and scientific publishing communities. They had important reasons for wanting to reuse snippets of information at a very elemental level and, along the way, they redefined the entire notion of a document. But at the same time, these pioneers labored in relative obscurity, providing finished information products to enterprises that often had scant understanding of what went into assembling those publications.