Type and Design Tips for self- and small publishers POST #6
DIGITAL BOOKS VERSUS PRINT BOOKS All the previous posts in this series have been about producing printed books, especially trade paperbacks. But now let’s...
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Type and Design Tips for self- and small publishers POST #5
Before I get to today’s topic, I just found out that John D. Berry’s ebooks on type and design are free for download: Dot-Font: Talking about Fonts ...
Type and Design Tips for self- and small publishers POST #4
Let’s start with hyphenation today. USE HYPHENATION: DON’T AVOID IT I see a lot of small press books where they try to solve the problem of a word p...
Type and Design Tips for self- and small publishers POST #3
Ok, now we get to the real stuff that no one tells you. Let’s say you’re using Quark or InDesign, you’ve flowed all the text of your novel or ...
Type and Design Tips for self- and small publishers POST #2
Okay, so you’ve decided you’re going to design and typeset your own book. The first thing to note is that I have never come up with a way around nee...
Type and Design Tips for self- and small publishers
Self-publishing and niche press publishing is going through an explosion right now, thanks to the ease with which modern tech lets us produce digital books and ...