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Samples of 2-Column Book Layout

by Joel Friedlander on December 17, 2018 10 Comments

Here’s a question from reader Pat B.: Hi Joel, Are there any rules of thumb for deciding whether text on a wide-format page should be printed in one or two columns? And if you go with two, are there guidelines for determining the optimal space between the columns? Thanks, Pat I’m not sure if there […]

Filed Under: Book Design Tagged With: book design, Gutenberg, InDesign

Two Reasons Why Books Matter

by Joel Friedlander on February 2, 2012 10 Comments

Two Reasons Why Books Matter looks at the emotional power of books to move us, and their ability to last over time

Filed Under: Book Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book design, Erica M. Chapman, Gering & Rembolt, Goodreads, Gutenberg, incunable, John Green, typography

Self-Publishing Basics: An Unabridged List of the Parts of a Book

by Joel Friedlander on September 29, 2009 60 Comments

The history of book printing goes back to the first Bibles pulled sheet by sheet off Johannes Gutenberg’s presses in Mainz, Germany in the late fifteenth century. The first books were attempts to replicate the handwritten books of the time, which varied widely. Over the centuries publishers have gradually established conventions about the way books […]

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Book Design, Editorial, Interior Design, Self Publishing Basics Tagged With: Chicago Manual of Style, Gutenberg, parts of a book

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