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Designing Genre Fiction and New Book Design Templates

by Joel Friedlander on March 27, 2017 3 Comments

Does design influence the readability of books? We introduce 6 new genre-specific pre-designed book templates at BookDesignTemplates.com

Filed Under: Book Design, Book Production Tagged With: Adobe InDesign, Apple Pages, book design, book design templates, Microsoft Word, Tracy R. Atkins

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

by Joel Friedlander on July 18, 2016 19 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Book Design, Reviews Tagged With: Adobe InDesign, Book Design Made Simple, book design templates, Fiona Raven, Glenna Collett

Hanging in the Back Matter: Indents Are the Rule

by Joel Friedlander on October 5, 2015 16 Comments

Hanging in the Back Matter: Indents Are the Rule looks at formatting specifications and uses of the hanging indent

Filed Under: Book Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Adobe InDesign, bibliography, book design, glossary, index, typography

How to Create an Index for Your Book in Adobe InDesign

by Joel Friedlander on June 1, 2015 10 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Book Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Adobe InDesign, book design, index, indexing

Book Design: Formatting Poetry Gets A Lot Easier

by Joel Friedlander on April 20, 2015 11 Comments

Book Design: Formatting Poetry Gets A Lot Easier with the Poetics book template from bookdesigntemplates.com

Filed Under: Book Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Adobe InDesign, book design, fonts, FontSquirrel, Microsoft Word, Poetics template, self publishing

[Video] Adobe InDesign Book Template Quick Look

by Joel Friedlander on November 25, 2014 5 Comments

[Video] Adobe InDesign Book Template Quick Look shows some of the features and capabilities of the templates from BookDesignTemplates.com

Filed Under: Book Design, Book Production, Video Tagged With: Adobe InDesign, book design, tutorial, typography, video

New Today: Book Templates for Adobe InDesign

by Joel Friedlander on November 24, 2014 30 Comments

New Today: Book Templates for Adobe InDesign introduces the first 6 predesigned book templates for fiction, memoir, and narrative nonfiction

Filed Under: Book Design, Book Production, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Adobe InDesign, book design, book templates, bookdesigntemplates.com, font, Microsoft Word

Review: PDF to InDesign Conversion Software for Book Layout: Markzware PDF2DTP

by Joel Friedlander on April 8, 2014 9 Comments

Review: PDF to InDesign Conversion Software for Book Layout: Markzware PDF2DTP in which the plugin is described and evaluated for book production

Filed Under: Book Production, Reviews Tagged With: Adobe InDesign, book design, book production, markzware, QuarkXPress, Recosoft

Review: PDF to InDesign Conversion Software for Book Layout: Recosoft PDF2ID

by Joel Friedlander on April 7, 2014 14 Comments

Review: PDF to InDesign Conversion Software for Book Layout: Recosoft PDF2ID Tracy R. Atkins walks through this conversion software

Filed Under: Book Production, Reviews Tagged With: Adobe Acrobat, Adobe InDesign, PDF, PDF2ID, Recosoft, review, Tracy R. Atkins

How to Build a Better Ellipsis with Adobe InDesign

by Joel Friedlander on October 28, 2013 22 Comments

How to Build a Better Ellipsis with Adobe InDesign including rules for use of ellipsis, and how to construct a flexible ellipsis in InDesign

Filed Under: Book Design Tagged With: Adobe InDesign, book design, book typography, Editing, ellipsis

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