by Joel Friedlander | Jun 1, 2015 | Book Design, Self-Publishing
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...
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 | Aug 19, 2014 | Book Design, Book Production, Self-Publishing
For many years self-publishers have been frustrated. I’m not talking about the usual ups and downs of indie publishing. No, I’m talking about authors who want to publish books with lots of full color photos or illustrations, and who want to take advantage...