by Joel Friedlander | Mar 18, 2010 | Book Printing, Book Production
It started off innocently enough. In fact there was a fair amount of excitement in the offices over East 51st Street. In photography books, Aperture was the place to be, and we were going to publish, after many years of trying to get a commitment, the “big...
by Joel Friedlander | Dec 3, 2009 | Book Printing, Book Production, Self Publishing Basics
We’ve all heard about it, we talk about it, we call it by the wrong name, but do you really know how print-on-demand book distribution works? You will by the end of this article. I’ve written in an earlier post about the confusion over the terminology...
by Joel Friedlander | Nov 22, 2009 | Book Printing, Self-Publishing
So you’ve written your masterpiece, had a friend look it over for errors, run it through your word processor’s spell check and created a cover with a “cover program” on your publishing company’s website. You are ready to do battle in the...
by Joel Friedlander | Nov 6, 2009 | Book Construction Blueprint, Book Design, Interior Design
The post continues the Book Construction Blueprint, a series of posts providing reliable guidance to anyone taking on the construction of a book that must conform to generally-accepted practice. We’ve already looked at the parts of a book, book pagination, the...
by Joel Friedlander | Sep 15, 2009 | Self-Publishing, Writing
Amid all the discussion about self-publishing we can forget that each decision to publish is a specific, unique, and very personal calculation. Hey, there are as many “reasons” to publish a book as there are people to publish them, but some authors are...
