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New Self-Publishing Options from Blurb and Book Design Templates

by Joel Friedlander on August 19, 2014 19 Comments

New Self-Publishing Options from Blurb and Book Design Templates along with an examination of Ingram’s Standard and Premium color options

Filed Under: Book Design, Book Production, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Blurb.com, book design, book design templates, Eileen Gittins, Ingram Spark, Lightning Source, Microsoft Word

Meet Three Amazing Teenage Self-Publishers (Video)

by Joel Friedlander on June 29, 2011 8 Comments

Meet Three Amazing Teenage Self-Publishers Hayley Smith, Emma Williams-Baron and Kento Mizuno, the books they produced for their senior projects in high school

Filed Under: Book Design, Self-Publishing, Video Tagged With: Blurb.com, book design, Emma Williams-Baron, Hayley Smith, high school, Kento Mizuno, publish a book, self publishing, senior project

After the Ribs: Memorial Day Mail Bag

by Joel Friedlander on May 30, 2011 3 Comments

After the Ribs: Memorial Day Mail Bag discusses book pagination and printing color books at Blurb.com

Filed Under: Book Production, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Blurb.com, book pagination, digital color printing, frontmatter, roman numerals, self publishing

Self-Publishing Basics: How to Pick the Size of your Book

by Joel Friedlander on September 13, 2010 199 Comments

Self-Publishing Basics: How to Pick the Size of your Book. Standard sizes vary for different genres of books, and printing methods may dictate your choices. Offset printing will give you many more size and paper choices than digital printing.

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Book Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Blurb.com, book design, book production, book sizes, CreateSpace, Lightning Source, self-publish a book

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