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Amazon is not the enemy, it’s the pathfinder

Posted on July 24, 2015 by David BergslandJuly 24, 2015

Get off your lazy butt—it’s a jungle out there! The only way to beat the leader is to be better at what the leader does. I was reading yet another excellent article this morning from Mike Shatzkin about the current state … Continue reading →

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Posted in Brick&Mortar, Marketing, News, On-Demand Publishing, Recent Posts, Self-publishing | Tagged Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com, E-book, ebook sales, iBooks, indie publishing, Self-publishing, traditional publishing

Podcasts? Video? or not…

Posted on May 16, 2015 by David BergslandMay 16, 2015

As most of you know, I do not listen to or produce podcasts. The same is not quite true with videos, but I’m just starting there. But I found this link today and thought some of you might be interested. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Marketing, Recent Posts, Self-publishing | Tagged author, Content marketing, Copywriting, marketing, podcast, social media, teacher, vlog

Writing a book title that works

Posted on May 11, 2015 by David BergslandFebruary 5, 2018

To the left, you see the cover of a book I wrote which includes some of this information. Marketing your book seems too difficult. One of the major problems is the book title. Many things go into writing a book … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Marketing, Recent Posts, Self-publishing | Tagged book branding, book cover design, book description, book marketing, book titles, ebook discovery, how to sell books, keywords, titles

Marketing tips for fiction and non-fiction: it takes time

Posted on March 23, 2015 by David BergslandMarch 23, 2015

Joel rarely writes for his blog any more, but it is a treat when he does. Today’s article is an excellent example of why his blog is so good: clean, concise, and useful. We can boil down the advice to the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Book Production, Marketing, Recent Posts, Self-publishing | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book, Book Design, book marketing, design, Digital printing, E-book, fiction, non-fiction, publishing, Self-publishing

Printing quality: Lightning Source, Lulu, or Createspace

Posted on February 28, 2015 by David BergslandFebruary 28, 2015

This has been an interesting question for the past decade. There are several things which enter into the equation. The two most important are defects and general quality. Aaron Shephard falls on the side of Createspace in a radical change this … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Production, News, On-Demand Publishing, Recent Posts, Self-publishing | Tagged gloss toner, image quality, matte toner, on-demand printing, Print on demand, printing defects, Readability, toner-based

Review: The Self-Publishers Ultimate Resource Guide from The Book Designer team

Posted on January 20, 2015 by David BergslandJanuary 20, 2015

It’s hard not to be really disappointed. Joel has been a superb source of data and knowledge for many years. But there is no information here. This book is just a list of resources There is nothing here except a list … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Review, Recent Posts, Self-publishing | Tagged Editing, formatting, marketing, publishing, Self-publishing, social media

Guest post: The future of ebooks by Michael W. Perry at inklingbooks.com

Posted on October 24, 2014 by David BergslandOctober 24, 2014

Michael’s comments are worth reading I didn’t ask his permission this time, but this is an excellent comment by Michael in reply to my posting about the probable need to go back to using Amazon’s Kindle Export plug-in in InDesign … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Book Production, Guest Posts, Kindle book design, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Amazon, Amazon kindle plug-in for indesign, epub, epub design, epub3, kf8, kindle

Kindle books still require InDesign CS6 and the Amazon plug-in

Posted on October 8, 2014 by David BergslandOctober 8, 2014

I sent my new book (see the cover to the left) to Kindle KDP. I exported it as ePUB2 with embedded fonts and so on. I converted it with Kindle Previewer.My first reader complained that all the graphics were destroyed. (A … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Book Production, Kindle book design, News, Recent Posts, Self-publishing | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Amazon Kindle, Book Design, CC 2014, CC 2014.1, CS6, Design Issues, kindle, page layout

What desktop publishing did to graphic designers, self-publishing is doing to authors

Posted on August 19, 2014 by David BergslandAugust 19, 2014

OK! I’m a little punch-drunk I’ve been through this before. In fact, I’ve been through it five times now. it’s been pretty much non-stop since 1991. My life and career [yours too, probably unless you’re a kid born after 1980—especially … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, GraphicDesign, Marketing, On-Demand Publishing, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Writing In InDesign | Tagged author, desktop publishing, digital publishing, distance learning, IPad, letterpress, New Mexico, offset litho, online learning, page layout, photo-production, Self-publishing, typesetting, writer

New release: Designing ePUBs With InDesign by David Bergsland

Posted on August 4, 2014 by David BergslandAugust 2, 2014

Ebooks have been a mess until now. Actually, they still are in many ways. However, InDesign CC 2014 has truly solved most of the problems. It always did export the best PDFs. Now it exports very good ePUB FXL (fixed … Continue reading →

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