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Self-Publishing Basics: The Title Page

by Joel Friedlander on February 1, 2010 30 Comments

In an earlier post about the parts of a book, I briefly discussed the title page: Title page—Announces the title, subtitle, author and publisher of the book. Other information that may be found on the title page can include the publisher’s location, the year of publication, or descriptive text about the book. Illustrations are also […]

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Book Design, Self Publishing Basics Tagged With: Chicago Manual of Style, Moriah Jovan

How to Create, Register and List Your New Publishing Company

by Joel Friedlander on December 28, 2009

When an author decides to publish their own book, there are many questions to be answered. It’s the first of these questions about self-publishing I want to address in this article, and that has to do with starting a publishing company. Some authors will decide to simply print copies of their book for their own […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Self Publishing Basics, Self-Publishing Tagged With: BowkerLink, ISBN, MyIdentifiers.com, RR Bowker, SAN

How Print-on-Demand Book Distribution Works

by Joel Friedlander on December 3, 2009 71 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

Creating a PDF for Lightning Source Print-on-Demand in InDesign CS4: Part 3

by Joel Friedlander on November 17, 2009 20 Comments

In these posts I’m reviewing the steps that I take to create a PDF file for digital print-on-demand printing at Lightning Source (LSI) from Adobe InDesign CS4. File creation using this process must be performed at least twice for each book submitted to LSI; once for the interior (bookblock in LSI terms) and once for […]

Filed Under: Book Production, Self Publishing Basics Tagged With: Adobe Distiller, Adobe InDesign, Lightning Source, print on demand

Creating a PDF for Lightning Source Print-on-Demand in InDesign CS4: Part 2

by Joel Friedlander on November 12, 2009 Leave a Comment

Last time I described how I check the status of all my linked graphics with the Link Palette, and how I re-link any missing files. The last check I make of my InDesign CS4 file before beginning the export process is to look at the book’s fonts. This is a key step in making a […]

Filed Under: Book Printing, Book Production, Self Publishing Basics Tagged With: Adobe InDesign, FindFont, Lightning Source, PDF

Self-Publisher’s 5-Minute Guide to Book Printing Processes

by Joel Friedlander on November 9, 2009 27 Comments

Podcast: Self-Publisher’s 5-Minute Guide to Book Printing Processes With all the talk about print on demand, digital printing and the future of the publishing industry, it’s easy to forget that we’ve got books to produce in the here and now, and we need to know the best way to produce those books today, this week. […]

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Book Printing, Book Production, Podcasts, Self Publishing Basics Tagged With: digital printing, letterpress, offset, print on demand

Self-Publishing Basics: Deciphering the Bookland EAN Bar Code

by Joel Friedlander on October 22, 2009 10 Comments

Self-publishers know that they must have an ISBN for their book if they want to sell through retail channels like bookstores. The ISBN not only identifies the publisher, the language group of the country the book is published in, and the specific title, it is also used to generate the scannable barcode found on the […]

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Book Design, Book Production, Cover Design, Self Publishing Basics Tagged With: barcode, Bookland EAN, ISBN, Smashwords

8 Milestones to Self-Publishing Success

by Joel Friedlander on October 20, 2009 3 Comments

Over the past two years many friends have asked for help understanding the new way books are published. This is common when you know a lot of writers, and recently I realized that most of my friends have either published books in the past, or are working on books right now. Although I love helping […]

Filed Under: Self Publishing Basics, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Publish Your Book! Workshop

Self-Publishing Basics: Book Chapters and Subheads

by Joel Friedlander on October 19, 2009 12 Comments

The post continues the series called the Book Construction Blueprint, providing reliable guidance to anyone taking on the construction of a book that must conform to generally-accepted practice. Chapter Titles Most nonfiction books are at least divided into chapters. Chapter lengths vary widely, and the goal of trying to keep chapters the same length may […]

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Book Design, Editorial, Interior Design, Self Publishing Basics, Self-Publishing, Writing Tagged With: book chapters, book design, book subheads, Self-Publishing

Self-Publishing Basics: Print on Demand—What Is It?

by Joel Friedlander on October 14, 2009 24 Comments

Do you remember this conversation from your own school days? “Ms. Murphy, can I go to the boy’s room?” “Well, Billy, you certainly can go to the boy’s room. You know where it is, and I saw you running after Sally Ketchum today at recess, so I know your legs are working fine.” “Oh, great, […]

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

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