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Understanding Book Printing Estimates for Self-Publishers, Part 1

by Joel Friedlander on January 10, 2011 21 Comments

Understanding Book Printing Estimates for Self-Publishers, Part 1 covers the terminology and organization of an estimate from a book printer

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Book Printing, Book Production, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Book Printing, book printing estimate, offset book printing, offset printing, print on demand, printers estimate, self publishing, self-publish a book

Lightning Source Book Cover Templates for DIY Self-Publishers

by Joel Friedlander on January 6, 2011 45 Comments

Lightning Source, Inc., the print on demand supplier that’s a division of Ingram Book Company, is arguably the biggest supplier of digital books to the publishing trade. They are used by many traditional publishers, and by competitive self-publishers who want to make use of Ingram’s distribution channels. One of the really neat features of their […]

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Book Design, Book Production, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book cover design, book cover template, cover template generator, Ingram Book Company, layout, Lightning Source, self-publish a book

Free Book Jacket Layout Template for DIY Self-Publishers

by Joel Friedlander on December 15, 2010 20 Comments

Free Book Jacket Layout Template for DIY Self-Publishers with a link to download a full-size PDF

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Book Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book design, book jacket, book jacket template, free template, publish a book, self publishing

ISBN 101 For Self-Publishers

by Joel Friedlander on November 19, 2010 361 Comments

ISBN 101 For Self-Publishers including whether you need an ISBN, the “free” ISBN and the many uses of this unique identifier.

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Andy Weissberg, Book Printing, books in print, Bowker, international standard book number, ISBN, publish a book, RR Bowker, self publishing, self-publish

Book Page Layout Preparation: The Local Formatting Problem

by Joel Friedlander on November 11, 2010 25 Comments

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

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Book Production, Self Publishing Basics Tagged With: Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe InDesign, book page layout, DIY book layout, local formatting, manuscript prep, Microsoft Word, self publishing

Book Page Layout Preparation: Cleaning Up Your Word Files

by Joel Friedlander on November 10, 2010 42 Comments

Page Layout Preparation: Cleaning Up Your Word Files requires use of the Find and Replace function to quickly and efficiently remove extra codes

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Book Production, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Adobe InDesign, book page layout, book production, file preparation, Find and Replace, Microsoft Word, self publishing

Pagination Styles: Shall We Kill the Widows & Orphans?

by Joel Friedlander on October 20, 2010 141 Comments

Pagination Styles: Shall We Kill the Widows & Orphans? As a self-publisher you’ll have to choose one style over another, and live with the results of either stray lines or holes at the bottom of your pages.

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Book Design, Interior Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Adobe InDesign, book design, self publishing, typography, widows and orphans

Using Photos in Your Book: Understanding Print Resolution

by Joel Friedlander on October 4, 2010 37 Comments

Understanding Print Resolution for Graphics in Books. How to determine if the files you are using will be suitable for print production. Includes examples of sample sizes for photos in books and corresponding file sizes.

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Book Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book design, Book Printing, dpi, graphic file formats, image files, photographs, resolution, self publishing

Self-Publishing Basics: How to Pick the Size of your Book

by Joel Friedlander on September 13, 2010 199 Comments

Self-Publishing Basics: How to Pick the Size of your Book. Standard sizes vary for different genres of books, and printing methods may dictate your choices. Offset printing will give you many more size and paper choices than digital printing.

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Book Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Blurb.com, book design, book production, book sizes, CreateSpace, Lightning Source, self-publish a book

CIP: What It Means, How to Read It, Who Should Get It

by Joel Friedlander on March 23, 2010 59 Comments

There is one place in printed books where we look for all kinds of editorial, bibliographic, legal, promotional and production information: the copyright page. But among all this information, data, legal notices and marketing and contact information, there’s one piece of content on the copyright page that is obscure to most people who pick up […]

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Editorial, Self-Publishing Tagged With: CIP, copyright page, Library of Congress, Quality Books, self-publish a book

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