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Self Publishing Basics

Book Page Layout Preparation: The Local Formatting Problem

November 11, 2010 19 comments
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Book Layout Preparation: The Local Formatting Problem and how to move your files from Word to InDesign quickly and efficiently by using powerful software tools

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Self-Publishing Basics: The Title Page

February 1, 2010 11 comments

In an earlier post about the parts of a book, I briefly discussed the title page: Title page—Announces the title, subtitle, author and publisher of the book. Other information that may be found on the title page can include the publisher’s location, the year of publication, or descriptive text about the book. Illustrations are also [...]

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How to Create, Register and List Your New Publishing Company

December 28, 2009 24 comments

When an author decides to publish their own book, there are many questions to be answered. It’s the first of these questions about self-publishing I want to address in this article, and that has to do with starting a publishing company. Some authors will decide to simply print copies of their book for their own [...]

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How Print-on-Demand Book Distribution Works

December 3, 2009 44 comments

We’ve all heard about it, we talk about it, we call it by the wrong name, but do you really know how print-on-demand book distribution works? You will by the end of this article. I’ve written in an earlier post about the confusion over the terminology commonly used to describe print on demand book distribution, [...]

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Creating a PDF for Lightning Source Print-on-Demand in InDesign CS4: Part 3

November 17, 2009 19 comments

In these posts I’m reviewing the steps that I take to create a PDF file for digital print-on-demand printing at Lightning Source (LSI) from Adobe InDesign CS4. File creation using this process must be performed at least twice for each book submitted to LSI; once for the interior (bookblock in LSI terms) and once for [...]

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