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How I’m Going To Book My Blog—Going Long

February 14, 2011 12 comments
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How I’m Going To Book My Blog—Going Long The author takes more steps to create a book from the contents of a blog archive, and does it in an unorthodox way

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Liz Castro: EPUB Straight to the Point

July 23, 2010 56 comments
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Liz Castro’s EPUB Straight to the Point will revolutionize the creation of EPUB files for ebooks. Recommended for anyone who is planning to create their own ebooks, or anyone curious about how ebooks are put together.

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Self-Publishing Tools: Adobe InDesign CS4

December 2, 2009 16 comments

The most popular program for preparing materials for print is Adobe’s InDesign, part of the Adobe Creative Suite (CS) version 4. Since building InDesign to compete with Quark Xpress, Adobe has integrated the program tightly with its CS teammates, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat Pro. It’s generally referred to as a page layout program. The Old [...]

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Creating a PDF for Lightning Source Print-on-Demand in InDesign CS4: Part 1

November 10, 2009 1 comment

Lightning Source (LSI) is my preferred vendor for print-on-demand services. Their quality is good, distribution options good for most books, and a technical staff that actually knows what they’re doing. Combined with responsive customer service, it’s easy to see why it’s the default in its field. LSI provides pretty adequate documentation but, as you might [...]

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