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by Joel Friedlander | Jan 6, 2011 | Book Construction Blueprint, Book Design, Book Production, Self-Publishing

Lightning Source, Inc., the print on demand supplier that’s a division of Ingram Book Company, is arguably the biggest supplier of digital books to the publishing trade. They are used by many traditional publishers, and by competitive self-publishers who want to...

Book Design to Sell: Tips for Self-Publishers

by Joel Friedlander | Dec 14, 2010 | Book Design, Interviews, Self-Publishing

Ed: This article is an excerpt from the teleseminar I recorded with Laura Cross for her Expert-Entrepreneur program. This program has a great lineup of experts Laura chose to help educate authors about the publishing process. In this excerpt, we talk about book design...

Joanna Penn: Crowdsourcing Your Book Cover Design

by Joel Friedlander | Oct 29, 2010 | The Joel Friedlander Archives

People do different things when confronted with choices for their book cover design. As a book designer, I like to present clients with real differences. This starts a dialogue between us that will eventually end in the final cover design that goes to press. But how...

Project Focus: Dancing on the River by Mark Susnow

by Joel Friedlander | Jun 3, 2010 | Book Design, Cover Design, Interior Design, Samples, Self-Publishing

Almost exactly a year ago I went to the all-day Get Published! workshop run by the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association. I met a lot of people that day, and talked at length with Mark Susnow about a book he planned to write and publish. He was thinking of...
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