Video: Why Publishers Love Hardcover Books, using Tess Collin’s Helen of Troy to show two formats produced together
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Amazon and Lightning Source: The End of an Era?
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
Case Study: Hardcover Adventure Travel
Case Study: Hardcover Adventure Travel. The Boy Behind the Gate by Larry Jacobson, a complex typographic design with a lot of other decorative elements
Understanding Book Printing Estimates for Self-Publishers, Part 2
Understanding Book Printing Estimates for Self-Publishers, Part 2 How to create a Request for Estimate for a short-run book printer.
Understanding Book Printing Estimates for Self-Publishers, Part 1
Understanding Book Printing Estimates for Self-Publishers, Part 1 covers the terminology and organization of an estimate from a book printer
A Friend’s Book: Tom Millea and The Book of Palms
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
When Print on Demand Fails: 6 Scenarios for Offset Printing
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.
Understanding Print-on-Demand: Follow the Money
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.
Self-Publishers Start Here: Making Print Choices
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.
What Does Self-Publishing Cost: Competitive Self-Publisher
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 […]