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Book Design: Pages or Spreads?

by Joel Friedlander on April 22, 2013 20 Comments

Book Design: Pages or Spreads? looks at the differences between designing print books and ebooks, and tips for dealing with them

Filed Under: Book Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book design, book formatting, bookdesigntemplates.com, CreateSpace, templates

X Hits the Spot: Why .DOCX is Better than .DOC for Authors Using Word

by Joel Friedlander on April 17, 2013 28 Comments

X Hits the Spot: Why .DOCX is Better than .DOC for Authors Using Word by Tracy R. Atkins examines the evolution of Word’s file formats and gives advice for authors

Filed Under: Book Design, Interior Design Tagged With: book design templates, book formatting, book layout, book production, Microsoft Word, Tracy R. Atkins

eBook Formatting Tips for Print Book Authors

by Joel Friedlander on April 10, 2013 20 Comments

Book Formatting Tips Going from Print Book to eBook looks at easy ways to avoid trouble in ebook conversion, and adds a list of ebook formatting resources

Filed Under: Self-Publishing Tagged With: book formatting, CreateSpace, Digital Book World, ebook conversion, eBooks, Scrivener, self publishing

Book Designer Plays the Template Game

by Joel Friedlander on February 20, 2013 40 Comments

Book Designer Plays the Template Game discusses how templates can be useful, and the search for a decent book design template

Filed Under: Self-Publishing Tagged With: Adobe InDesign, book design, book design template, book formatting, Microsoft Word, Tracy R. Atkins, word templates

Getting Started With Microsoft Word Styles for Book Layout

by Joel Friedlander on February 1, 2013 38 Comments

Getting Started With Microsoft Word Styles for Book Layout introduces how to work with Styles as a way to learn how to format your own books, especially with book design templates

Filed Under: Book Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book design, book design templates, book formatting, Microsoft Word, self publishing, Word styles

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