by Joel Friedlander | Sep 7, 2010 | Book Design, Interior Design
The first book my son ever got truly captivated by as an early reader was Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. We had read the earlier Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone together, with me doing most of the reading since he had just learned to read. By the...
by Joel Friedlander | Jul 30, 2010 | Reviews, Social Media
“De gustibus non est disputandum,” the Romans decreed. There’s no disputing taste. I’ve decided to agree with them. Why? Because I enjoy reviewing books that are helpful to writers, self-publishers and people interested in typography and...
by Joel Friedlander | Jun 30, 2010 | Book Design, Self-Publishing
Text breaks—those places where the author wants to insert a space, but not a new chapter or section—lots of authors use them, and they often create problems for book layout. There are many ways the text break can be used: to give the reader a rest to...
by Joel Friedlander | Jun 1, 2010 | Book Design, Book Production
Everywhere you turn people are talking about ebooks and the future of book publishing. My explorations of the iPad have landed me in the iBooks app for long periods of time, and deep in Stanza on my iPhone, Calibre on my Mac, and Kindles on the various Kindle reader...
by Joel Friedlander | May 6, 2010 | Book Design, Interior Design
Let me tell you a story. One day long ago a couple of engineers sat around putting together the first piece of software that would help people lay out documents and do the work of graphic designers, right from their own desktop computer. Do you think these engineers...
