I’ve been having a regular correspondence with my friend and writing instructor Suzanne Murray about the relationship of writers to publishing, and how to best understand the situation they face today. Recently, Suzanne sent me another question:
Why would a writer want to self publish? And what kind of work is especially suited to self publishing?
Here’s [...]
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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, but [...]
So you’ve written your masterpiece, had a friend look it over for errors, run it through your word processor’s spell check and created a cover with a “cover program” on your publishing company’s website. You are ready to do battle in the marketplace.
Hey, you should be able to go head-to-head with any other book, right? [...]
The phone rang, and for some reason Jill started talking very loudly into the receiver, like she was in a construction zone.
“Yes! Yes! Where? Are you serious?” Was all I could here. I waited until she hung up a minute later.
“Who or what was that?” I wanted to know.
“Morrie, calling from Melbourne. And guess what? [...]
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 the [...]
Podcast: Self-Publisher’s 5-Minute Guide to Book Printing Processes
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
With all the talk about print on demand, digital printing and the future of the publishing industry, it’s easy to forget that we’ve got books to produce in the here and now, and we need to know the best way to produce [...]
There have been a series of announcements recently of interest to self-publishers, and the opening of doors is a good sign for the continued growth of the industry. It seems like the drive to become content creators rather than just content consumers, continues to grow. We can thank the advent of print on demand publishing [...]
Do you remember this conversation from your own school days?
“Ms. Murphy, can I go to the boy’s room?”
“Well, Billy, you certainly can go to the boy’s room. You know where it is, and I saw you running after Sally Ketchum today at recess, so I know your legs are working fine.”
“Oh, great, thanks.”
“One moment, Billy. [...]
As the technology we use to manufacture books changes, designers responsible for creating those books adapt. Sometimes slowly. Sometimes reluctantly. But they adapt, because the new technology will eventually supplant the old technology.
Today most books are still printed by offset lithography, and any print run over about 1,000 units will benefit from the more [...]
