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Case Study: Hardcover Adventure Travel

by Joel Friedlander | Apr 5, 2011 | Book Design, Book Printing, Book Production, Cover Design, Interior Design, Samples, Self-Publishing

Case Study: The Boy Behind the Gate by Larry Jacobson Design Brief: The author and his partner were the first gay couple to sail around the world. Larry, a former marketing executive, made a complete break with his former life and spent seven years traveling around...
Book Design for Self-Publishers: Workflow, Interior Design Stage

Book Design for Self-Publishers: Workflow, Interior Design Stage

by Joel Friedlander | Mar 31, 2011 | Book Construction Blueprint, Book Design, Self-Publishing

Ed: This post is one of a series on Book Design for Self-Publishers. In the first article we looked at getting the raw materials for your book design project organized. In the second we looked at an overview of the book design workflow. With this article we turn to...

When Self-Published Book Design Goes Bad

by Joel Friedlander | Mar 24, 2011 | Book Design, Self-Publishing

This is a story of failure. My failure, and the failure of my whole book design process. It’s about books that go bad, and the tragedy of a book design spiraling into the void. How could things have gone so wrong? It all started out well enough. An optimistic...

Marathon: Ebook Design in a Grand Tradition of Bookmaking

by Joel Friedlander | Mar 17, 2011 | Book Design, E-Books & Readers

For some time we’ve been moaning about how bad most ebooks look, the poor typography, the feeble attempts to make ebooks look like printed books, which they do not resemble in any meaningful way. The litany of complaints from typographers and book designers...
4 Top Book Formatting Mistakes to Avoid

4 Top Book Formatting Mistakes to Avoid

by Joel Friedlander | Mar 9, 2011 | Book Construction Blueprint, Book Design, Book Production, Self-Publishing

Looking at the actual files we print books from, like the Adobe InDesign files I produce, can be quite revealing. I get sent a lot of files for various reasons. They might be the files from a self-publisher who thought they would design and lay out their book...

Lessons From a Do-It-Yourself Book Cover Designer

by Joel Friedlander | Mar 4, 2011 | Book Design, Cover Design, Self-Publishing

by Will Entrekin I met Will Entrekin on Twitter, and here on my blog where he comments. Will is a novelist and has self-published a number of books. He sent me the cover of a recent collaboration and I asked if he would write about the experience of designing book...
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