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Video: Why Publishers Love Hardcover Books

by Joel Friedlander on January 5, 2012 23 Comments

Video: Why Publishers Love Hardcover Books, using Tess Collin’s Helen of Troy to show two formats produced together

Filed Under: Book Printing, Book Production, Self-Publishing, Video Tagged With: Book Printing, book production, casebound, Helen of Troy, offset printing, Tess Collins, trade paper

Amazon and Lightning Source: The End of an Era?

by Joel Friedlander on September 9, 2011 291 Comments

Amazon and Lightning Source: The End of an Era? With the change in how Amazon handles print on demand books, publishers are forced to adjust

Filed Under: Book Printing, Book Production, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Aaron Shepard, Aiming at Amazon, Amazon, CreateSpace, Lightning Source, Morris Rosenthal, POD for Profit, print on demand, publishing a book, self publishing

Case Study: Hardcover Adventure Travel

by Joel Friedlander on April 5, 2011 4 Comments

Case Study: Hardcover Adventure Travel. The Boy Behind the Gate by Larry Jacobson, a complex typographic design with a lot of other decorative elements

Filed Under: Book Design, Book Printing, Book Production, Cover Design, Interior Design, Samples, Self-Publishing Tagged With: adventure travel book, binding, book design, Book Printing, book production, casebound books, color inserts, Larry Jacobson, publish a book, self publishing

Understanding Book Printing Estimates for Self-Publishers, Part 2

by Joel Friedlander on January 12, 2011 7 Comments

Understanding Book Printing Estimates for Self-Publishers, Part 2 How to create a Request for Estimate for a short-run book printer.

Filed Under: Book Printing, Book Production, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book design, book printer, book production, graphic design, offset printing, publish a book, request for estimate, self publishing, short-run printing

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

A Friend’s Book: Tom Millea and The Book of Palms

by Joel Friedlander on October 5, 2010 11 Comments

A Friend’s Book: Tom Millea and The Book of Palms describes the long journey the book designer travels to get his friend’s book into print despite all obstacles

Filed Under: Book Design, Book Printing, Self-Publishing Tagged With: digital photography, fine art photography, Hemlock Printers, offset printing, photography books, The Book of Palms, Tom Millea

When Print on Demand Fails: 6 Scenarios for Offset Printing

by Joel Friedlander on September 23, 2010 14 Comments

When Print on Demand Fails: 6 Scenarios for Offset Printing including books that require quality color reproduction or custom paper or trim sizes. Knowing your market is crucial to picking your reproduction method.

Filed Under: Book Printing, Book Production, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book production, CreateSpace, Lightning Source, offset printing, print on demand

Understanding Print-on-Demand: Follow the Money

by Joel Friedlander on September 10, 2010 34 Comments

Understanding Print-on-Demand: Follow the Money to find out how authors, publishers, retailers and distributors profit from this new technology and how authors have found a way to make completely passive income.

Filed Under: Book Printing, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Amazon, Book Printing, Lightning Source, print on demand, self publishing, self-publish a book

Self-Publishers Start Here: Making Print Choices

by Joel Friedlander on August 19, 2010 3 Comments

Making Print Choices. An early task in self-publishing is deciding on how your book will be printed and distributed. Links to articles are included in this round up of print processes and choices.

Filed Under: Book Printing, Book Production, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book design, Book Printing, digital book printing, offset printing, print on demand, self publishing

What Does Self-Publishing Cost: Competitive Self-Publisher

by Joel Friedlander on May 12, 2010 35 Comments

This is the last in the series of What Does Self-Publishing Cost posts. After a preview, we looked at two other models of self-publishing, each representing a range of choices that self-publishers can make when they start planning their publication. Here are the links to the rest of the series: What Does Self-Publishing Cost: A […]

Filed Under: Book Printing, Book Production, Self-Publishing Tagged With: print on demand, publish a book, publishing companies, self publishing, self-publish a book, superior books

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