by Joel Friedlander | Oct 5, 2010 | Book Design, Book Printing, Self-Publishing
Something that’s obvious to me now is that when you start to participate in social media, you come in contact with a lot of the loose ends from your life. I’m thinking of Facebook. Within a few hours of signing up for Facebook in 2009, I had heard from a...
by Joel Friedlander | Aug 19, 2010 | Book Printing, Book Production, Self-Publishing
In my recent blog redesign I added the “Start Here” categories on the left sidebar to make it easier to find articles with basic information about self-publishing. Each introduces a stage on the journey to publication with links from the archives of...
by Joel Friedlander | May 14, 2010 | Book Design, Book Production
Have you ever tried to describe a color to someone who else without anything to look at together? “Well, it’s blue.” “You mean like the blue in the drapes?” “No, no, nothing like that at all. It’s more like the blue in the...
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 | Oct 14, 2009 | Book Printing, Book Production, Self Publishing Basics
Do you remember this conversation from your own school days? “Ms. Murphy, can I go to the boy’s room?” “Well, Billy, you certainly can go to the boy’s room. You know where it is, and I saw you running after Sally Ketchum today at recess,...
