Ed: This article on working with a book designer was originally written for the Write Nonfiction in November blog run by Nina Amir. When I started designing books, book designers only had one kind of client: book publishers. Whether they were trade publishers,...
Book Design. (1452 – 2011). Born near Mainz, Germany, Book Design came of age in the heady atmosphere of Venice in the Italian Renaissance. He went through a rocky adolescence when he seemed to lose track of his roots, but matured into the confident and gracious...
Case Study: Quiet Americans: Stories by Erika Dreifus Design Brief: The author is a short story writer and a contributing editor for The Writer magazine and Fiction Writers Review and an advisory board member for J Journal: New Writing on Justice. Erika’s writing...
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...
When you sit down to design a book, there are organizational tasks you have to address right at the beginning. Getting your raw materials organized and making sure your workflow will produce an efficient publishing process are important enough to spend some quality...
One of the most challenging tasks for a do-it-yourself self-publisher is laying out a dust jacket for a hardcover book. To create the artwork for a jacket, it’s important to work closely with your book printer. Many of the crucial pieces of information...
