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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

Book Design Templates 2.0: Upgraded Templates, Cool New Site, 25% Off This Week

by Joel Friedlander on November 29, 2016 4 Comments

Since we introduced our interior book templates in February, 2013 over 15,000 authors all over the world have created their books more quickly and at less expense than ever before. But nothing’s perfect, right? Tracy Atkins and I have been hard at work for over a year to change the way we sell our templates, […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: book design, bookdesigntemplates.com, fonts, InDesign, Pages, templates, Word

Resource Roundup Report and Recommendations

by Joel Friedlander on September 14, 2015 9 Comments

Resource Roundup Report and Recommendations reviews products in use at The Book Designer.com

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: IA Writer, InDesign, LeadPages, Optimize Press, Scrivener, Word

Is Interior Book Design a Commodity?

by Joel Friedlander on June 3, 2013 62 Comments

Is Interior Book Design a Commodity? Examines the 4 requirements for a functional interior book design, and asks readers whether they need custom book designs

Filed Under: Book Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book design, book designer, book formatting, book layout, commodity pricing, InDesign, indie publishing

How I’m Going To Book My Blog—Going Long

by Joel Friedlander on February 14, 2011 12 Comments

How I’m Going To Book My Blog—Going Long The author takes more steps to create a book from the contents of a blog archive, and does it in an unorthodox way

Filed Under: Book Design, Self-Publishing, Social Media Tagged With: blog articles, blogging, book design, Brian Clark, InDesign, publish a book, self publishing

Liz Castro: EPUB Straight to the Point

by Joel Friedlander on July 23, 2010

Liz Castro’s EPUB Straight to the Point will revolutionize the creation of EPUB files for ebooks. Recommended for anyone who is planning to create their own ebooks, or anyone curious about how ebooks are put together.

Filed Under: Book Reviews, E-Books & Readers Tagged With: CSS, Elizabeth Castro, ePub, iBook, iBookstore, InDesign, iPad, iPad fonts, Word, XHTML

Self-Publishing Tools: Adobe InDesign CS4

by Joel Friedlander on December 2, 2009 21 Comments

The most popular program for preparing materials for print is Adobe’s InDesign, part of the Adobe Creative Suite (CS) version 4. Since building InDesign to compete with Quark Xpress, Adobe has integrated the program tightly with its CS teammates, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat Pro. It’s generally referred to as a page layout program. The Old […]

Filed Under: Book Design, Book Production, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Adobe Creative Suite, InDesign, PageMaker, QuarkXPress

Creating a PDF for Lightning Source Print-on-Demand in InDesign CS4: Part 1

by Joel Friedlander on November 10, 2009 1 Comment

Lightning Source (LSI) is my preferred vendor for print-on-demand services. Their quality is good, distribution options good for most books, and a technical staff that actually knows what they’re doing. Combined with responsive customer service, it’s easy to see why it’s the default in its field. LSI provides pretty adequate documentation but, as you might […]

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Book Printing, Book Production, Self-Publishing Tagged With: InDesign, Lightning Source, links palette, PDF

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