Career
He has authored or coauthored more than two dozen computer-related books and multimedia Civil Defense-ROMs, and has served as author and editor of various magazine articles Tony Bove wrote the book The Art of Desktop Publishing (Bantam Books, 1986). He is the cofounder, editor and publisher of Desktop Publishing Magazine, User"s Guide to Communist Party/M, and Bove and Rhodes Inside Report (with Cheryl Rhodes).
In 1991, Bove started doing multimedia development on personal computers.
His Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties Civil Defense-ROM was produced with poet and San Francisco Oracle underground newspaper editor Allen Cohen, featuring music from the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and Jefferson Airplane. Bove wrote and coauthored with Neal Goldstein.
Bove coauthored with Andy Ihnatko. He wrote, and with Cheryl Rhodes.
He wrote and In 2005, Bove wrote the book Just Say Number to Microsoft (Number Starch Press, 2005), to which John C. Dvorak added a foreword.
Tony Bove is a cofounder and band member (harmonica, vocals, and songwriting) of the Flying Other Brothers rock band (which included Roger McNamee, Pete Sears, Barry Sless, and G East Smith). Bove"s Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties Civil Defense-ROM was previewed in Wired. Robert Scoble reviewed Bove"s book Just Say Number to Microsoft, to which John C. Dvorak added a foreword.
Bove"s book The Art of Desktop Publishing (Bantam Books, 1986) was reviewed by Erik Sandberg-Diment in The New York Times.
