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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

What Does Self-Publishing Cost? A Preview

by Joel Friedlander on April 7, 2010 33 Comments

Ed: Here are links to the other articles in this series: What Does Self-Publishing Cost: DIY What Does Self-Publishing Cost: Online Self-Publisher What Does Self-Publishing Cost: Competitive Self-Publisher One of the first questions people ask when they think they may want to self-publish is: What’s it going to cost? It doesn’t matter if the author […]

Filed Under: Book Printing, Book Production, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book design, book production, self publishing, self-publish a book

Preparing Black & White Photos for Your Book

by Joel Friedlander on March 25, 2010 27 Comments

One of the biggest challenges for book printers is reproducing photographs in books that are otherwise mostly text. One of the tasks of a book designer is preparing these photos so they reproduce as well as possible. Before you can understand what goes into this preparation, you need to know a little about how photographs […]

Filed Under: Book Printing, Book Production Tagged With: black & white photos, book design, book production, Halftones, stochastic screen

Book Production On the Edge: How Lisette Model Got Made

by Joel Friedlander on March 18, 2010 9 Comments

It started off innocently enough. In fact there was a fair amount of excitement in the offices over East 51st Street. In photography books, Aperture was the place to be, and we were going to publish, after many years of trying to get a commitment, the “big book” of photograps by Lisette Model. Most people […]

Filed Under: Book Printing, Book Production Tagged With: Aperture, book publishing, Lisette Model, Marvin Israel, offset printing

How Self-Publishers Get The Most from Pre-publication Printings

by Joel Friedlander on March 4, 2010 7 Comments

Yesterday I wrote about using 48HrBooks for advance print runs. Some clients prefer printing their advance copies at other vendors, like Lulu.com. But the article also brought up some questions about why self-publishers need these advance print runs at all: What are they good for? Once the book is ready, shouldn’t I just go to […]

Filed Under: Book Printing, Editorial, Reviews Tagged With: advance reader copies, Advance Review Copies, bound galleys, prepublication print run

Book Running Late? Working With 48HrBooks.com

by Joel Friedlander on March 3, 2010 23 Comments

In a perfect world all our carpools would run on time, no backpacks would be left on the back seat, construction zones would open as we approached them, and our children would be grateful and respectful at all times. Of course, in a perfect world all our work would come in right on schedule. Editors […]

Filed Under: Book Printing, Book Reviews, Self-Publishing Tagged With: 48HrBooks.com, Advance Review Copies, Book Printing, digital printers, self-publishing a book

Working With Blurb.com for Color Books

by Joel Friedlander on February 16, 2010 14 Comments

I’m working on a lovely book of inspirational verse and color photographs, and in order to proof the book and get some Advance Reader Copies, I’m using Blurb.com, who specializes in color books just like this. I’ve seen books from Blurb before, and they look quite good considering they are digital. They can’t compare directly […]

Filed Under: Book Printing, Book Production, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Blurb, photography, Self-Publishing

Self-Publishing to Go, With A Grande Frappuccino, Please!

by Joel Friedlander on December 10, 2009 4 Comments

In the past couple of weeks, both Thomas Nelson, the large Christian publisher, and Harlequin, the leading romance publisher, have announced new divisions to cater to authors who decide to publish their own books. There has been a lot of talk, some impassioned, about these initiatives, and what they mean for publishing. The partner in […]

Filed Under: Book Printing, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Author Solutions Inc., Espresso Book Machine, Harlequin, Mick Rooney, On Demand Books, Thomas Nelson

How Print-on-Demand Book Distribution Works

by Joel Friedlander on December 3, 2009 72 Comments

We’ve all heard about it, we talk about it, we call it by the wrong name, but do you really know how print-on-demand book distribution works? You will by the end of this article. I’ve written in an earlier post about the confusion over the terminology commonly used to describe print on demand book distribution, […]

Filed Under: Book Printing, Book Production, Self Publishing Basics Tagged With: book publishing, Lightning Source, print on demand

Turn The Tables on Self-Publishing Disadvantages

by Joel Friedlander on November 22, 2009 8 Comments

So you’ve written your masterpiece, had a friend look it over for errors, run it through your word processor’s spell check and created a cover with a “cover program” on your publishing company’s website. You are ready to do battle in the marketplace. Hey, you should be able to go head-to-head with any other book, […]

Filed Under: Book Printing, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book publishing, print on demand, Self-Publishing

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