by Joel Friedlander | Mar 17, 2011 | Book Design, E-Books & Readers
For some time we’ve been moaning about how bad most ebooks look, the poor typography, the feeble attempts to make ebooks look like printed books, which they do not resemble in any meaningful way. The litany of complaints from typographers and book designers...
by Joel Friedlander | Jan 23, 2011 | Self-Publishing, Writing
One week moves into the next, and the books keep flowing. This week we’ve got new distribution options, Kindle talk, a questionnaire, a long interview and another piece of genius from Paul Mod. It’s all ebooks people, that’s the truth. Read on. Brian...
by Joel Friedlander | Oct 13, 2010 | Book Design, E-Books & Readers
Indie Author April Hamilton responded to my post about typeface combinations for book design with a note about ebooks: Joel – Those font combintations look great, but I can only shake my head and sigh knowing none of them would survive the conversion to Kindle...
by Joel Friedlander | Sep 1, 2010 | E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing
Does it seem like you have to be a programmer to get your book into the ePub format? Sometimes it does. As a print designer, I’ve never learned much HTML, CSS or any of the other standards that are second nature to web designers, and the foundation of ePub....
by Joel Friedlander | Aug 31, 2010 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
Whenever a discussion about self-publishing gets heated, you can be sure someone will say, “If we let just anybody publish a book, soon we’ll be buried in bad, unedited books and all the good ones will be lost in a sea of crap!” There were over...
