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InDesign CC begins the solution to ugly HTML lists

Skilled Workman Posted on May 15, 2013 by David BergslandFebruary 7, 2014

One of the real issues with ePUBs and Kindle books are the horrendously ugly HTML lists which have no typographical relationship with the rest of the copy in the book. InDesign CC has made a large step forward by beginning their development of a robust convert-to-text option for our ePUBs. Let me show you the issues with a sample document:   Here we see a small bulleted list using an oversized red dingbat from the font, Embellishments … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Book Production, ePUB, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Typography | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Amazon Kindle, ASCII, Bullet, bulleted lists, epub, HTML, InDesign, lists, Unicode

Multiple linked TOCs in ePUBs for CC

Skilled Workman Posted on May 14, 2013 by David BergslandMay 14, 2013

One of the new changes to InDesign CC is an innocuous checkbox at the bottom of the Table of Contents dialog box for: Make text anchor in source paragraph. What this does is make sure that any TOC has functional links in the exported ePUB. As Ron Bilodeau commented, “You can now have multiple ID-generated TOCs within your document(s) and they will all exist with correct links within your exported ePub file.” Now you can have custom … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Book Production, ePUB, Kindle book design, Recent Posts | Tagged Amazon Kindle, desktop publishing, E-book, epub, IBook, InDesign CC, IPad, IPhone, new feature, nook, TOC, TOC with links | Leave a reply

Longer books sell better!

Skilled Workman Posted on May 13, 2013 by David BergslandMay 13, 2013

I had a frustrating weekend. I was reading a novel. I enjoyed it. But it stopped halfway through— BANG!—just stopped. I was irritated. I had just started getting into the characters. So, I bought the second one in the series. It was also very good, but it did the same durn thing! So, I bought the third one in the series, and it did the same thing. There’s one more book in the series, and I’ll probably … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Recent Posts, Self-publishing | Tagged author, book length, how to sell books, Mark Coker, publishing, selling books, word count | 14 Replies

The new Self-Publishing Handbook is released!

Skilled Workman Posted on May 11, 2013 by David BergslandMay 11, 2013

My handbook for the new breed of self-publisher is out! Why do you need to read this book? As I have become involved with the amazing variety of the new breed of authors—self publishing pioneers, it has been stunning to watch and listen as they discuss the problems they are having because they are working in Word. If they are dealing with quality issues, Word rarely has an answer. In fact, it’s sad to see that there … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, Christian Design, On-Demand Publishing, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Amazon Kindle, Book, Book Design, DIY publisting, how do I self-publish, iBooks, InDesign, publishing, Self-publishing, what does it cost to self-publish | 3 Replies

Does quality matter in the new publishing paradigm?

Skilled Workman Posted on May 1, 2013 by David BergslandMay 1, 2013

As I have been experiencing, learning, teaching, and writing about on-demand self publishing over the past decade or two [I actually started self publishing ebooks in 1993 or 4], one area of book design has slid right past most of the new authors. This is quality. We won’t even discuss how quality dropped in the slide from letterpress to offset. That’s back in the dark ages, pre-digital. Silly person! That doesn’t matter any more. The one that … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, Leadership, On-Demand Publishing, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble, epub, iBooks, InDesign, IPad, kindle, nook, page layout, Typography, word, Word processing | 16 Replies

Just released a 69 page preview of my Self Publishing Handbook

Skilled Workman Posted on April 25, 2013 by David BergslandApril 25, 2013

The book is due out in May, 2013. It will be called: Practical Professional Self Publishing Handbook The book is written for those authors who recognize that professional production is key to having their books taken seriously. They are also tired of paying hundreds or thousands of dollars every time they release a book. In addition, they are sick of the need to be constantly contacting their designer to get special previews, gift editions, updates, and all … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, Christian Design, ePUB, Kindle book design, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book Design, Books, ebook production, epub, epub design, kindle, publishing, Publishing and Printing, Self-publishing | 4 Replies

The Book Designer’s Book Typography and Fonts package

Skilled Workman Posted on April 2, 2013 by David BergslandOctober 4, 2017

Make your book professional with the Contenu/Buddy production group Self Publisher Book Typography & 16 Fonts Only $49.99 or 12 Radiqx house fonts for book design Only $29.99 For self publishers the conversion from Word to InDesign is a huge leap. The goal is a professional look to their book designs, but immediately the problems of typography raise their head. In Word that is not so much of an issue because the typography controls in Word are … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Font Design, Fonts for sale, Hackberry Fonts, Sales, Self-publishing | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book Design, buddy, contenu, font, font design, font package, graphic design, OpenType, Self-publishing, Typography | 2 Replies

Graphics In InDesign: an excerpt from “Practical Professional Self Publishing Handbook”

Skilled Workman Posted on March 30, 2013 by David BergslandMarch 30, 2013

This is the first portion of the new Practical Professional Self Publishing Handbook due out before summer this year. InDesign is the true replacement for FreeHand Many designers are still upset that Adobe took FreeHand off the market. We remain convinced that FreeHand was a far superior vector drawing program to Illustrator. Actually, I bring good news. InDesign is actually more closely related to FreeHand than it is to Illustrator. Ole Kvern and I have commented on this many … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, Kindle book design, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Typography, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Systems, Amazon Kindle, book production, graphics, InDesign, pdf, Portable Document Format, vector graphics | 1 Reply

The sadness of Word & how it’s damaging self publishing

Skilled Workman Posted on January 30, 2013 by David BergslandJanuary 30, 2013

As I have become more social online, the prevailing grief for me is listening to all the new authors whose main problem is that they are using Word. Whether it’s one of my Facebook groups like Christian Indie Authors or Indie Christian Authors, a Google+ community like Christian Authors, or the authors who tweet, the ones in Linked-In groups, or GoodReads groups, and many more, the common lament is, “How do I do this in Word?” The … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, Christian Design, ePUB, Kindle book design, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book Design, CS6, iBooks, InDesign, OpenOffice, Pages, professional, Scrivener, Typography, word, Word processor | 27 Replies

Typography does not start with font design

Skilled Workman Posted on January 5, 2013 by David BergslandJanuary 5, 2013

This is the first major confusion in typography. Many believe that typography is font choices. They spend a huge amount of time on which fonts to choose, how fonts developed historically, and the reader reactions to these fonts. This indeed is a good portion of typography, but this pursuit misses the entire point. The point of typography is to use words to communicate. Font choices can help—but this is really a small portion of what we need … Continue reading →

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