When authors decide to format their own books, they don’t pick the best book layout. It’s important to stay within formatting conventions because printed books have existed for a long while. Longstanding habits of readers and accepted trade practices have...
Learning about how to make a book is an exciting process. It’s time to stop dreaming, start doing and turn your idea into something people can read and enjoy. But what do you need to know to make it happen? Making a book requires a mixture of ideas and...
By Rafal Reyzer Font choice is a major component of book and cover design. In today’s guest post, Rafal Reyzer offers some insight into why certain fonts work and others don’t. I think you’ll enjoy this post. According to an interview with the...
By Tracy R. Atkins In recent posts I discussed to deal with special formatting concerns specific to nonfiction books including: subheads quotations bullet points numbered lists an index nonfiction footnotes nonfiction endnotes when using a Book Design Template. Today,...
By Joel Friedlander It was late in the fall in 2009 that it all started. Book publishing had changed dramatically in the 5 years leading up to that point. While I was off doing other things, Ingram introduced print on demand technology that promised to transform the...
By Tracy R. Atkins In a recent post I discussed to deal with special formatting concerns specific to nonfiction books including: subheads quotations bullet points numbered lists when using a Book Design Template. Today, I would like to show you how to format: an index...
