by Joel Friedlander | Apr 20, 2015 | Book Design, Self-Publishing
For the last two years, since the launch of BookDesignTemplates, we’ve been getting requests for specialty book templates. And I can see why. We originally launched with only 6 pre-designed book templates for Microsoft Word. They were best suited to novels,...
by Joel Friedlander | Nov 25, 2014 | Book Design, Book Production
Yesterday I introduced our new book templates for Adobe InDesign, and we’ve already had to field a lot of questions. So today I sat down and made this video to show you what the templates look like and a little bit of how they are used. I even make formatting...
by Joel Friedlander | Nov 24, 2014 | Book Design, Book Production, Self-Publishing
I’ve been waiting a long time for today. It was back in 2010 when I first started thinking about providing do-it-yourself authors with the tools to produce professional quality books on their own, using professional quality tools. But life never works out the...
by Joel Friedlander | Oct 28, 2013 | Book Design
I had been working on a book with editor Sharon Goldinger of PeopleSpeak. This fiction author is fond of dropping ellipses into his dialogue. Consequently there were hundreds of them in the 300-page book. Some authors will just type three periods where they want an...
by Joel Friedlander | Oct 18, 2013 | Book Design, Book Typography, Self-Publishing
By David Bergsland Quite a number of authors have written recently to get some clarity on font usage. Can they use the fonts that came with a software package in their book? On the cover? What about free font downloads, are those okay? I turned to type designer and...
