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Book Design & Book Production

• “I Hate That!” Book Design Pet Peeves
• [Video] Adobe InDesign Book Template Quick Look
• 110 Type Ornaments to Use in Your Book (Plus a Free Download)
• 12 Steps to Book Design Mastery: A Curriculum
• 17 Things Self-Publishers Need to Know about Book Design
• 2016 Edition of The Self-Publisher’s Ultimate Resource Guide, Revised and Expanded
• 21 Top Links to Book Fonts for Self-Publishing
• 22 Top Book Designer Tasks for Getting Your Self-Published Book Into Print
• 24 Practical Tips for Using Photos in your Print on Demand Books
• 3 Great Typeface Combinations You Can Use in Your Book
• 3 Indie Publishing Discussion Groups: Getting Your Questions Answered
• 3 Keys to Beautiful Book Pages
• 3 Typefaces for Books from Adobe’s Robert Slimbach
• 4 Questions I Ask Myself About E-Books
• 4 Solutions to the Book Discount System
• 4 Top Book Formatting Mistakes to Avoid
• 5 Favorite Fonts for Interior Book Design
• 5 Favorite Fonts with Hidden Type Ornaments
• 5 Favorite Free Fonts for Interior Book Design
• 5 Great Fonts for Book Covers
• 5 Questions on the Book Production and Marketing Matrix
• 6 Action Tips to Speed Up Your Book Production
• 7 New Typeface Combinations for Book Design
• 7 Things You Can Do Today to Improve Your Book Design
• 8 Drop Caps For Chapter Openings in Adobe InDesign
• A Day In The Life of a Blogging Book Designer
• A Friend’s Book: Tom Millea and The Book of Palms
• A Long Slog through the OCR Swamp
• A Quick Look at the Fine Art of Book Spine Design
• Adding Photos and Creating PDFs in Microsoft Word
• After the Ribs: Memorial Day Mail Bag
• Amateur-Hour Books: Do You Know the Warning Signs?
• Amazon and Lightning Source: The End of an Era?
• Answers to the 7 Biggest Questions About MiniBüks
• Apple iBooks Author Reinvents eBook Creation
• Apple iPad Typography: Fonts We Actually Want
• Apple iPad: The Future of the Book Starts Now
• Author Blogging 101: Converting Posts to Resource Pages
• Author Series Book Templates: Relive The Glory
• Authors Keep Formatting When They Should Be Styling
• Authors: Why You Should Be Writing in Adobe InDesign
• Authors: Wondering How Long Your Book Should Be?
• Beautiful Details, Beautiful Books: How to Recognize Oldstyle Typefaces
• Beware the Impossible Book Project
• Book Anatomy: Revisiting Your Book’s Back Matter
• Book Cover Design, Fiction and Nonfiction: What's the Offer?
• Book Cover Success and Failure Explained
• Book Design & Page Layout Software: A Guide for DIY Authors
• Book Design and Formatting Services from The Book Designer
• Book Design Case Study: Short Stories by Erika Dreifus
• Book Design Case Study: Two Contemporary Novels
• Book Design for Self-Publishers: Raw Materials
• Book Design for Self-Publishers: Workflow Overview
• Book Design for Self-Publishers: Workflow, Interior Design Stage
• Book Design Quick Tips for Self-Publishers
• Book Design Templates Announces Agreement with Ingram Content Group to Deliver Affordable Book Formatting Solutions
• Book Design Templates Now With 12 “Done For You” Services
• Book Design to Sell: 5 Book Interior Page Layout Mistakes to Avoid
• Book Design to Sell: Fonts for Books
• Book Design to Sell: Tips for Self-Publishers
• Book Design Webinar: What You Need to Know In 17 Short & Awesomely Simple Steps
• Book Design with Microsoft Word: The Art of Moriah Jovan
• Book Design, Internet Marketing and the Nature of Human Consciousness
• Book Design: 6 Variations on Drop-Cap Typography
• Book Design: 8 Solutions to the Text Break Dilemma
• Book Design: Chapter Openers and Part Openers
• Book Design: Choosing Your Paragraphing Style
• Book Design: Don’t Get Confused By Typeface Point Sizes
• Book Design: Formatting Poetry Gets A Lot Easier
• Book Design: Have You Checked Your Margins?
• Book Design: Pages or Spreads?
• Book Design: Points and Picas Primer
• Book Design: The Architecture of the Book Page
• Book Design: Who's the Top Dog?
• Book Designer Confesses: The Truth About Word Processors
• Book Page Layout for a Long Narrative
• Book Page Layout Preparation: Cleaning Up Your Word Files
• Book Page Layout Preparation: The Local Formatting Problem
• Book Production On the Edge: How Lisette Model Got Made
• Book Title Pages: 500 Years of Inspiration
• Breakthrough Technology Cuts Book Formatting Time in Half
• Capturing and Using Text from Old Documents in New Book Production
• Carol Twombly, An Extraordinary Type Designer
• Case Study: Hardcover Adventure Travel
• Case Study: History of a 19th Century Sea Captain
• Casewrap Books in Berkeley: Inspiration for Self-Publishers
• Casewrap vs Dust Jacket? Self-Publishers Make the Hard(cover) Choice
• Catherine Ryan Howard Interviews The Book Designer
• Children’s Book Templates Now at BookDesignTemplates.com
• Confessions of a Drop-Shadow Addict
• Conversion Journey: My Word-to-E-book Workflow
• Create 3D Book Covers In A Few Simple Steps
• CreateSpace Title Information and the New Amazon Success Toolkit
• Creating a PDF for Lightning Source Print-on-Demand in InDesign CS4: Part 1
• Creating a PDF for Lightning Source Print-on-Demand in InDesign CS4: Part 2
• Creating a PDF for Lightning Source Print-on-Demand in InDesign CS4: Part 3
• Designing Books
• Designing for Hand Printing a Broadside in the Bookman Typeface
• Designing Genre Fiction and New Book Design Templates
• Do You Know These 5 Ways to Use Negative Space in Your Book Design?
• Does Book Design Really Matter?
• Does Your Book Need a Lay-Flat Binding?
• Don’t Let me Find You Bleeding in the Gutter—Understanding Book Terminology
• E M Ginger on Digitizing the Art of the Book
• e-Book Cover Design Awards Information
• e-Book Cover Design Awards, August 2011
• e-Book Cover Design Awards, July 2015
• e-Book Cover Design Awards, September 2011
• e-Book Cover Design Awards, September 2011 Part 1
• e-Book Cover Design Awards, September 2011 Part 2
• e-Book Cover Design Awards, September 2011 Part 3
• e-Book Cover Design Awards, September 2011 Part 4
• eBook Design Today and Tomorrow
• Ebooks Now & Tomorrow: Interview with Joshua Tallent of Ebookarchitects.com
• EBooks Today: Futility or Utility?
• Finding Free Fonts for Your Self-Published Book
• Finding Photographs for a Book or Blog Gets Better
• Five Free “Must Use” Tech Tools for eBook Authors
• Free Book Jacket Layout Template for DIY Self-Publishers
• Free Print Book Resource for Authors
• Free: Expert Advice for Producing Print Books in the New Book Construction Blueprint
• Friends’ Books
• From DIY To Outsourcing: Why Self-Publishers Should Hire Experts And How To Work With Them
• Front Matter: Organizing the Beginning of Your Book
• Fun With Fonts—Identifont
• Galleys
• Getting Started With Microsoft Word Styles for Book Layout
• Going Undercover—The Story of Knock-Off
• Grammar, a Marketing Idea, Helvetica Now, and Pitching Junk
• Guy Kawasaki’s APE: Offset Printing for Self-Publishers
• Hanging in the Back Matter: Indents Are the Rule
• Hardcover Books Reach New Heights
• Hermann Zapf, A Legendary Type Designer
• How I’m Going To Book My Blog—Going Long
• How I'm Going to Book my Blog—Titles & Covers
• How Long Should Your Book Be?
• How Much Attention Should You Pay to Book Design?
• How Print-on-Demand Book Distribution Works
• How to Build a Better Ellipsis with Adobe InDesign
• How to Check Your Book Proof in 3 Simple Steps
• How To Create A Standout Title Page: 5 FAQs and Answers
• How to Create an Index for Your Book in Adobe InDesign
• How to Create Artwork to Foil, Stamp, and Emboss Your Books
• How to Design Running Heads for Your Book
• How to Make a Book
• How to Make a PDF Book That's Realistic
• How to Make PDFs for Lightning Source Print-on-Demand—A Free Report
• How to Make Trim-Sized PDFs for Print on Demand Publication
• How to Publish Your eBook from Word to Kindle in under Ten Minutes
• How to Reinvent a Book with a New Book Cover
• How to Save Money on Your Book Proof Corrections
• Hyphens, Em Dashes, En Dashes—Everything You Need to Know
• IBPA Publishing University: Book Design Principles
• In Response to Your Inquiry: Letter to a Prospective Client
• Independent Bookstores Opening to Self-Published Books?
• Indie Business Memoir Scores Major Reviews
• Indie Publishing: The Problem With Book Distribution
• Ingram Spark Launches: An Interview with Robin Cutler [Audio]
• Interior Design for Not A Fire Exit by Christopher Finlan
• iPad Martha Stewart Living: The Future of Text?
• iPad’s ePub: The “Book” of the Future?
• Is Formatting for Print Book and Ebooks Too Much Work?
• Is Interior Book Design a Commodity?
• Is Offset Printing the Future for Indie Authors?
• Is the Paradise We’ve Lost the Beautiful Page?
• Is This the Best Writer’s Journal Ever?
• ISBN for Self-Publishers: Answers to 20 of your Questions
• It’s All in a Font: How Font Choice Affects the Mind
• Joanna Penn: Crowdsourcing Your Book Cover Design
• Kindle Picture Book Template
• Kindle’s New Bookerly Font and Other Typography Features
• Learn About the Color of Type Pages in Book Design
• Less Expensive, Bite-Sized, Available for Take-Out: The Book of the Future
• Lessons From a Do-It-Yourself Book Cover Designer
• Lightning Source Book Cover Templates for DIY Self-Publishers
• Magazines Come in Tablet Form! and the Future of the Book
• Marathon: Ebook Design in a Grand Tradition of Bookmaking
• Mark Coker of Smashwords at BAIPA: Indie Revolution in Full Swing
• Mark It Up! PDF Annotation Software
• Meet Three Amazing Teenage Self-Publishers (Video)
• Mick Rooney’s Reviews of Publishing Services Companies
• My Monospaced Life
• New Self-Publishing Options from Blurb and Book Design Templates
• New Today: Book Templates for Adobe InDesign
• New: Pro-Quality Book Interiors from The Book Designer
• New! Full-Service Book Design and Production from The Book Makers
• New! The Book Blueprint: Expert Advice for Creating Industry-Standard Print Books
• News Update: Should You Use Lightning Source or Ingram Spark?
• No Time To Write AND Market Your Book? This Should Help…
• Now Create Your Book Covers in Microsoft Word
• Old John Baskerville and the Birth of Modern Printing Paper
• Pagination Styles: Shall We Kill the Widows & Orphans?
• Pantone: The Language of Color Reproduction
• Picking Fonts for Your Self-Published Book
• Preparing Black & White Photos for Your Book
• Preparing Your Manuscript for Publication – Part 1
• Preparing Your Manuscript for Publication – Part 2
• Preparing Your Manuscript for Publication – Part 3
• Prepping Files for Book Layout: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
• Print on Demand and Book Distribution Guides
• Print on Demand: CreateSpace or Lightning Source?
• Project Focus: 2-color Cover Design for Self-Publishers
• Project Focus: 2-Color Cover Design for Trade Publishers
• Project Focus: Cover Design With Supplied Artwork for Not A Fire Exit
• Project Focus: Cover Design with Supplied Artwork for The “And” Principle
• Project Focus: Dancing on the River by Mark Susnow
• Project Focus: Exotic Life by Lisa Alpine
• Project Focus: Interior Design for Business Mensch by Noah Alper
• Project Focus: Interior Design for The Age of Participation
• Project Focus: Long and Complex Books Demand Attention to Detail
• Project Focus: Small Square Books
• Project Focus: The Poetry of the Typography of Poetry
• Quick & Easy Book Production: Do You Know the Secret?
• Readability and a Lifelong Lesson for Beginning Book Designers
• Real World Book Design: Designing for Print-on-Demand Production
• Review: Book Design Made Simple by Fiona Raven & Glenna Collett
• Review: PDF to InDesign Conversion Software for Book Layout: Markzware PDF2DTP
• Review: PDF to InDesign Conversion Software for Book Layout: Recosoft PDF2ID
• Review: The Anatomy of Type by Stephen Coles
• Samples of 2-Column Book Layout
• Saturday Q & A With the Book Designer 02
• Saturday Q & A With the Book Designer 03: Book Cover Wrap
• Saturday Q & A With the Book Designer 05: Book Files
• Self Publishing Basics: How to Create Your ARC Cover
• Self-Published Books Get a Major Overhaul with BookDesignTemplates.com
• Self-Publisher’s 5-Minute Guide to Book Printing Processes
• Self-Publishers Start Here: Making Print Choices
• Self-Publishers Start Here: Understanding Fonts & Typography
• Self-Publishing Basics: 5 Book Binding Styles Illustrated
• Self-Publishing Basics: 5 Layout Mistakes that Make You Look Unprofessional
• Self-Publishing Basics: An Unabridged List of the Parts of a Book
• Self-Publishing Basics: Book Chapters and Subheads
• Self-Publishing Basics: Book Pagination For Fun and Profit
• Self-Publishing Basics: Deciphering the Bookland EAN Bar Code
• Self-Publishing Basics: How to Pick the Size of your Book
• Self-Publishing Basics: Print on Demand—What Is It?
• Self-Publishing Basics: The Elements of the Book Page
• Self-Publishing Basics: The Title Page
• Self-Publishing Basics: Why You Need a Category on the Back Cover of Your Book
• Self-Publishing Case Study: Inspirational Photography Book
• Self-Publishing Case Study: Nonfiction
• Self-Publishing Case Study: Nonfiction Hybrid
• Self-Publishing Case Study: Nonfiction Instruction
• Self-Publishing Case Study: Personal Memoir
• Self-Publishing Case Study: Serious Nonfiction
• Self-Publishing Chapbooks – Personal & Precious
• Self-Publishing News You Can Use: Changes
• Self-Publishing Tools: Adobe InDesign CS4
• Self-Publishing, or, "Boxes of Books Blight My Basement"
• Self-Publishing: Pulling the Trigger
• Series Design Presents Unique Book Design Challenges
• Set Up a Workflow That Starts with Styles
• Should Authors Design Their Own Books?
• Should You Design Your Own Book? Pro and Con
• Special Formatting for Nonfiction Books in Microsoft Word
• Special Formatting for Nonfiction Books in Microsoft Word – Part 2
• Special Formatting for Nonfiction Books in Microsoft Word – Part 3
• Square-Serif Fonts Pack a Typographic Punch
• Straight from the Master: Masterson on Book Design & Production
• The Basics of Book Design
• The Big Book of Font Combinations by Douglas Bonneville
• The Century Typeface: An American Original
• The Death of Book Design
• The Design Process: Choice
• The Elements of Bad Typography
• The Epic Saga of WriteWell Journals: A Book Production Tale
• The Epic Saga of WriteWell Journals: A Book Production Tale, Part 2
• The Epic Saga of WriteWell Journals: Book Production Success
• The Evolution of a Book Cover: “Bad Elephant Far Stream”
• The Holy Grail of Book Design
• The One Book Every Self-Publisher Should Own
• The Problem With “E-Books”
• The Problem With Reading Books on the Small Screen
• The Speed of Self-Publishing is Best When You Go Slow
• The Trouble With Word Processors
• The Typographer’s Curse: Automatic Leading
• There's Something Odd About Self-Publishing Books
• These 3 Typography Websites Will Change How You Look at Type
• Thoughts on Turning 10
• Three Secrets Your Book Designer Knows
• Top 10 Tips for Working With A Book Designer
• Top 5 Book Design Layout Errors Illustrated
• Two Reasons Why Books Matter
• Typefaces as History: Aldus Manutius and The Noble Bembo
• Typefaces I Can't Live Without: Adobe Myriad Pro
• Typefaces of 1932: Weiss Roman Specimens
• Understanding Book Layouts and Page Margins
• Understanding Book Printing Estimates for Self-Publishers, Part 1
• Understanding Book Printing Estimates for Self-Publishers, Part 2
• Understanding Book Printing Estimates for Self-Publishers, Part 3
• Using Photos in Your Book: Understanding Print Resolution
• Using QR Codes to Expand the Reading Experience
• Video: Why Publishers Love Hardcover Books
• Warning: Book Files Need 4 Crucial Checks to Succeed At Your Printer
• Warning: Even “A-List” Bloggers Need Book Designers
• What Does Self-Publishing Cost: Competitive Self-Publisher
• What Does Self-Publishing Cost: DIY
• What Does Self-Publishing Cost: Online Self-Publisher
• What Does Self-Publishing Cost? A Preview
• What Is a Glossary? (FAQ & Examples)
• What is the Easiest Font to Read?
• When Print on Demand Fails: 6 Scenarios for Offset Printing
• When Self-Published Book Design Goes Bad
• Where Can I Legally Use My Fonts?
• Why Self-Published Books Look Self-Published
• Will Children's Book Self-Publishers Survive CPSIA?
• Working With Blurb.com for Color Books
• Working With Cover and Interior Designers
• World War Word: A Book Formatting Story
• X Hits the Spot: Why .DOCX is Better than .DOC for Authors Using Word
• Your Complete 4 Step Guide To Book Sizes
• Your Top 7 Book Design Templates Questions Answered