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Book Production Services

Skilled Workman Posted on September 14, 2013 by David BergslandSeptember 14, 2013

I regularly provide production help to Christian authors, as led by the Spirit. Feel free to contact me. What I want to do below is give you some idea of the options I offer. We can also negotiate custom relationships. Radiqx Press Production Charges Most of my books are done as a whole, so editing, proofing, formatting, exporting for upload are all part of the same process. I normally charge $60/hour for my billable time. To prepare a … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Book Production, On-Demand Publishing, Recent Posts, Self-publishing | Tagged Amazon Kindle, Book Design, Business, Design Issues, E-book, epub, InDesign, kindle, on-demand, Portable Document Format, Print on demand, publish, publishing, reality, Self-publishing | Leave a reply

A link to a typographic poster

Skilled Workman Posted on September 12, 2013 by David BergslandSeptember 12, 2013

This infographic shows a lot of what goes into a good font. More than that it enables you to talk about it. I do not agree with all of it. But it is very good. For example, for me aperture is about the openness of the c, s, and characters like that. The poster calls the opening of the u the aperture. We’re probably both right. It’s copyrighted or I’d put it in this posting and talk … Continue reading →

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Choosing a companion sans for your body copy

Skilled Workman Posted on August 27, 2013 by David BergslandAugust 27, 2013

Use a companion font for the heads & subheads This font family needs to be carefully chosen. It needs to have enough contrast to the body copy font to make the heads stand out. But it must have the same, or a very similar, x-height. This way you can use it comfortably for things like run-in heads, where the first few words in a paragraph are used as a contrasting low-level subhead. Your family choice should probably … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Book Production, Christian Design, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Typography, Writing In InDesign | Tagged font, Futura, Garamond, graphics, nested styles, run-in heads, Sans-serif, serif, Times Roman, Typeface, typography. book design, X-height | Leave a reply

What we need in a font family for books

Skilled Workman Posted on August 26, 2013 by David BergslandAugust 26, 2013

As typographers and book designers, we need a minimum three-font family—regular, italic, and bold: Italic is necessary for periodical names and emphasis. Bold is used for proper names and headers. As you saw at the start of this paragraph I used a bold through the colon to emphasize an important point. In my books I use my Bold Sans Serif. But regardless of which font family you choose it must satisfy several basic requirements of book design. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Readability, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Typography, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Book Design, book fonts, design, font, font for books, graphics, Italic type, oldstyle figures, Sans-serif, small caps, Times Roman, Type color, Typeface, Typography | Leave a reply

Cover Design: The seduction of type effects

Skilled Workman Posted on August 12, 2013 by David BergslandAugust 12, 2013

Amateur covers are obvious! The number one mistake is made by adding all kinds of fancy trimmings to your type. Not only does it make the type much harder to read, but all trained designers have been strongly told that NO ONE EVER does that. As a result, there are very few professional covers with type stylized like that. If it is, the type is carefully embossed, maybe beveled. Using the minimal amount necessary to get the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Book Production, ePUB, Kindle book design, Readability, Recent Posts, Self-publishing | Tagged Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Arts, book cover, book cover design, graphic design, importance of covers, Kobo, lulu, nook, Readability | 1 Reply

New Release! “How Do I Make The Next Book Better?”

Skilled Workman Posted on July 20, 2013 by David BergslandAugust 7, 2013

This is the plaintive question I get every time after I have set up, formatted, and uploaded a book for a new author. It is also one of the most common questions I see while socially networking. Buy $2.99: How Do I Make The Next Book Better? There are three basic underlying concepts 1: Producing a print version of your book 2: Dealing with the size of your production budget 3: Producing a manuscript which can be easily … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, Christian Design, ePUB, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Typography | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book Design, graphic design, Guy Kawasaki, publish, QuarkXPress, Self-publishing, Typography, word | Leave a reply

How can I make the next book better?

Skilled Workman Posted on July 13, 2013 by David BergslandJuly 13, 2013

How can I make it better the next time? This is the plaintive question I get every time after I have set up, formatted, and uploaded a book for a new author. It is also one of the most common questions I see in the FaceBook and Linked-In groups, Google+ communities, and specialized author forums in which I spend time. It is coupled with the question, “How can I get the print version set up?” There are … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Typography, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Adobe InDesign, FaceBook, GoodReads, graphic design, Guy Kawasaki, how do I self-publish, InDesign, publish, QuarkXPress, Typography, what does it cost to self-publish, word | 2 Replies

The changes to self-publishing are just beginning

Skilled Workman Posted on July 1, 2013 by David BergslandJuly 1, 2013

This has been a day for it. All my sources are talking about nothing else. Here’s an excellent article about where indie and self-publishing may go There’s some good stuff here. The real problem is two-fold: The transitional future of the dedicated ereader Getting book discovery out of the hands of Amazon The ereader is going Some of this may be wishful thinking on my part. But the sales stats are proving my assumptions to be true. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Book Production, Recent Posts, Self-publishing | Tagged Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com, apple, desktop computers, IPad, Kobo, laptops, nook, Tablet computer, tablets | 8 Replies

Contrary to common opinion, InDesign CC has helped ePUB export a lot

Skilled Workman Posted on June 5, 2013 by David BergslandApril 30, 2023

In the ePUB world, it is amazing how much bad press is given to InDesign. In fact, the coverage given to coders and developers of ePUBs matches the hype received in the media by Obama. But we won’t go there. I just received yet another posting in an author group I am in this morning. The writer stated that InDesign does not handle embedded fonts in ePUBs well. This is simply untrue. In fact, InDesign ePUB export … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Book Production, Christian Design, ePUB, Kindle book design, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book Design, ebook design, epub, epub design, HTML, IBook, Kindle Fire, Kobo, OpenType | 5 Replies

DPS in trouble: people do not like digital magazines

Skilled Workman Posted on May 30, 2013 by David BergslandMay 30, 2013

I’ve been saying this for a long time, but now stats are surfacing to show my point. Dead Tree Edition has a good article on it showing that only 25% of tablet users prefer digital magazines over print. That means three-quarters of tablet users prefer print. My point is that DPS is a dead-end for Adobe. It is one of those “you did a wonderful job of making something I really didn’t have any need for” type … Continue reading →

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Posted in Christian Design, Magazines, Recent Posts, Typography | Tagged Adobe, digital magazines, DPS, Dynamic HTML, HTML, IPad, Tablet PCs | 2 Replies

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