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ePUB production just took a major leap upward with InDesign CC9.2

Skilled Workman Posted on January 18, 2014 by David BergslandJanuary 30, 2014

The new InDesign CC9.2, released this week, gives us much to be happy about as book publishers Most of the changes affect book production. The long-promised TypeKit integration is now available with over 700 Adobe TypeKit fonts freely usable and licensed for print, Web, and ebook as part of Creative Cloud. It runs much faster. There has been a major reworking of the hyperlinks panel to simplify its use. There’s a full featured QR code generator. There is … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Book Production, ePUB, GraphicDesign, Kindle book design, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Adobe, Adobe InDesign, Creative Cloud, epub, IBook, IPad, Kobo, TypeKit | 9 Replies

Book Production Charges are often ridiculous!

Skilled Workman Posted on January 13, 2014 by David BergslandJanuary 13, 2014

I received this post today from GoodReads purporting to give reasonable figures for editing and page layout for books. The table is from the original blog posting. While these may be common charges for freelancers living in large cities, they only serve to show how far out of touch the bi-coastal publishing industry has gotten. Let me give you some idea of what we are talking about here. I just finished a non-fiction book today with 124,000 … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Book Production, Christian Design, GraphicDesign, On-Demand Publishing, Recent Posts, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book, charges, Copy editing, desktop publishing, Editing, graphic production, indexing, page layout, publishing, QuarkXPress | Leave a reply

The new flat UIs or the Emperor has new clothes

Skilled Workman Posted on January 8, 2014 by David BergslandJanuary 8, 2014

We all remember the story. A king is scammed by cunning tailors to walk around naked. The new iOS7 and Mavericks [OSX.9] are clear examples of this type of thinking. The lemming designers, like the Weather Channel, are beginning to run around proclaiming the wonders of the new kingly style. As you can see below, shutterstock claims the lemmings are going wild for the new style. Hey! The emperor is naked!!! Fashion which forgets about the reader … Continue reading →

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Posted in Christian Design, GraphicDesign, Readability, Recent Posts, Typography | Tagged flat ui, Graphical user interface, GUI, iOS7, Mavericks, OSX.9, UI, User interface, Weather Channel | Leave a reply

Author beware! You are responsible to make good choices

Skilled Workman Posted on December 27, 2013 by David BergslandDecember 27, 2013

Dave Bricker posted a long article today about the dangers of publishing without knowing the expenses and requirements of book production. You need to read the article if you are ignorant of the scams perpetrated on authors. Most publishers you run across with a quick Google search as you start your hunt for help will be vanity houses seeking to scam the author. There are countless people lusting after your production money This is where you need … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, Christian Design, Readability, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Writing In InDesign | Tagged author, Book Design, Editing, Manuscript, publish, Publishing and Printing, Self-publishing, vanity press, what does it cost to self-publish | 1 Reply

A possible replacement for PDFs or a new type of book?

Skilled Workman Posted on December 26, 2013 by David BergslandDecember 26, 2013

This one almost slipped past me. Bob Levine wrote about  it at InDesign secrets. Adobe’s now giving away licenses to the .folio format. This could be huge! Magazines were dying because .folio was so expensive Now maybe we’ll see some more folio readers. Maybe tablet reader apps will be able to handle folio also. Maybe PDF will finally go the way of the dodo. The ability to offer books with multiple columns and portrait/landscape versions gives technical … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Book Production, Magazines, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Writing In InDesign | Tagged .folio, Adobe, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Systems, Bob Levine, Book Design, desktop publishing, Electronic publishing, IPad, non-fiction, publishing | 3 Replies

Don’t toss your Pages 09! It’s needed to open RTF files

Skilled Workman Posted on November 28, 2013 by David BergslandNovember 28, 2013

One of the more irritating things about Mavericks is how some capabilities have been lost in the transition to newness. I do like the new free versions of Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. I like them a whole lot more than Office, for sure. But some puzzling things have appeared. The one which affects me the most is the inability of the new Pages to open RTF files. This doesn’t sound too bad, but many of the word.docs … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Book Production, Recent Posts, Software Review | Tagged Computer file, Mavericks, Microsoft Word, Office, Pages 09, pdfs, Portable Document Format, publishing, rebuilding books, Rich Text Format, rtf, word | Leave a reply

Lightning Source: the pro’s choice for POD?

Skilled Workman Posted on November 18, 2013 by David BergslandNovember 18, 2013

The image is meaningless fill. I received this comment from Michael W. Perry, Inkling Books, Auburn, AL. I’ve been wanting a guest posting on this for a while, so I am appropriating his comments for that purpose. I’ve never dealt with LS. I never have the budget. But it is definitely the pros’ choice. Lightning Source is the print-on-demand supplier for the traditional publishers. Many authors find it very difficult to deal with, but Mike, like me, has … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, Guest Posts, Recent Posts | Tagged Amazon, Amazon.com, Createspace, CreativeCloud, InDesign, Lightning Source, LightningSource, Michael W. Perry, POD, Print on demand, professional | Leave a reply

Questions from authors about publishing their book

Skilled Workman Posted on November 16, 2013 by David BergslandNovember 16, 2013

I received this email a couple days ago. It is typical of the type of questions I get from every author for whom I either publish their book or produce the digital artwork for their book so they can publish it. The only proviso is that I only publish books for authors I know, for books that I like. I’m a fairly radical Christian, so I expect any books I publish will promote the Gospel, be a … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Book Production, Recent Posts, Self-publishing | Tagged Amazon, Amazon Kindle, how do I self-publish, iBooks, IPad, IPhone, Kobo, nook, publishing, traditional publishing, vanity press, what does it cost to self-publish | 6 Replies

Desktop, laptop, or tablet?

Skilled Workman Posted on October 25, 2013 by David BergslandOctober 25, 2013

I found a good article today which explains many of the issues. My main issue with the conclusions is that I cannot be productive with a laptop. If you are just writing, an iPad with Apple’s wireless keyboard will do the job for you very well. The article misses my most important category of software apps: the Creative Cloud. My two most used apps [outside of Mail and Safari], are InDesign and Photoshop. I can easily see that … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Adobe InDesign, apple, Computer keyboard, Desktop computer, iMac, IPad, iWork, on-demand, OpenType, PostScript, publishing, Self-publishing, Typography | Leave a reply

The ePUB3 hype: I thought we were talking about books?

Skilled Workman Posted on October 8, 2013 by David BergslandOctober 8, 2013

From the Shatzin files this morning: “I think the questioner in this case was also trying to pull us into a discussion of video, audio, interaction, and linking, which I resist for two reasons. One is that, so far, the preponderence of ebooks that have sold any appreciable quantities have not had any of those attributes. They’re just the same words as in the printed books made reflowable for a screen. The second is that my world … Continue reading →

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