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Kindle’s New Bookerly Font and Other Typography Features

by Joel Friedlander | Jun 22, 2015 | The Joel Friedlander Archives

Many ebook readers—and not just us typography nerds and designers, either—have complained about the limited font set provided with the major e-readers. Considering the vast sums that have been spent on developing these devices, it’s always seemed odd to me that...

ePub, ePub Everywhere, What's a Blogger to Do?

by Joel Friedlander | Sep 15, 2011 | The Joel Friedlander Archives

It wasn’t hard to predict that ePub would start to become a common output option on more and more consumer-level software programs. As it is, there are word processors and layout programs that convert your documents to ePub books, complete with linked table of...

Independent Publishing: That's Evolution!

by Joel Friedlander | Aug 24, 2011 | E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing

by Thomas Burchfield (@Thomburchfield) I’m glad to welcome back novelist Thomas Burchfield, who also contributed The Power of Persistence in Indie Publishing. Here’s his tale of evolving along with the whole self-publishing scene. Since I entered...

e-Book Cover Design Awards: Do We Need Them?

by Joel Friedlander | Aug 23, 2011 | E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing

Book award shows abound in the publishing world, and every year in the fall you can expect to see lots of email, flyers, mailings and solicitations to enter your books into one contest or another. This subject needs a fuller examination, and I’m busy putting...

TheBookDesigner Blog Stats and Coming Attractions

by Joel Friedlander | Jun 14, 2011 | E-Books & Readers, Social Media

Blog Stats There’s a long tradition of bloggers publishing statistics on their blogs. I like the tradition, no matter what niche you’re in, because it reflects some of the ethos behind social media. It’s been over a year since I published any stats,...
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