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Review: Book Design Made Simple by Fiona Raven & Glenna Collett

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Editor’s Note: Please see the end of this article for a special offer on Book Design Made Simple and a free sample download, courtesy of the authors. Are you a do-it-yourself self-publisher? If you answered “Yes,” then today is a good day for you! Professional book designers Fiona Raven and Glenna Collett have collaborated on […]

How to Create an Index for Your Book in Adobe InDesign

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There are many nonfiction books that need an index to be complete. Although it seems that more books are published without indexes every year, savvy self-publishers know that including an index is one way they can make their print books stand out. A proper index can’t be produced automatically by your word processing software. An […]

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