Typotheque: The Science of Typography by Ellen Lupton. She is one of the teachers considered the best. There’s some good information here. But the bottom line is “I’m not going to tell you what I believe.”
Continue reading →Choose a comfortable measure | The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web. Again this is for the Web, but this translates to ebook design also.
Continue reading →Flexknowlogy – Jared Steins blog – » readability. This is just for those of you looking for answers, like me. What is clear is that it is all opinion and dependent upon your preconceptions.
Continue reading →Part two: in the series developing my new book, “The New Publisher” Written and published in May, 2011 © David Bergsland • All Rights Reserved Mankato, Minnesota • http://radiqx.com Please let us know if there is anyway we can help you in you publishing endeavors. Page layout basics Setting up your book to be read One of the more daunting aspects of book design for the inexperienced is page layout. Most people have Word experience and Word cannot … Continue reading →
The New Publisher Here we are in the second decade of the new millennium and we are faced with a brand new way of serving the Lord in the Kingdom. Publishing has radically changed. The new changes are almost designed for those of us who feel called by the Lord to share the vision of what He has called us to do. The new methodologies work better for prophets, pastors, and teachers than they do for almost … Continue reading →
InDesign 7.5 On-Demand. I just released the 2nd edition of InDesign On-Demand. I will update the copy for the rest of the first edition. In this new paradigm, procedures, capabilities, and options are still changing weekly or more often than that.
Continue reading →Things have really changed—free whitepaper. Above is a link to a free PDF about how to publish your book for free in print, downloadable PDF, ePUB on iBooks and NookBooks, Kindle book, and various ebook formats. Included are marketing materials and intensive marketing—all for free. This is the new paradigm of on-demand publishing What has happened with few people noticing is that books have become a creative effort for fine artists and authors of all types. Not … Continue reading →
I’ve been having trouble with images in my ePUBs for well over a year. I was testing again today, and for the book I was working on, changing from fixed size to relative to page made a huge difference on the iPad. I had been using Adobe Digital Editions to make my judgements and fixed size at 300 dpi works a lot better there. But for the iPad, relative to page solved my problems (as long as … Continue reading →
I’ll bet you never thought about it. But there are certainly answers that you need to know. This posting was triggered by a post from Sue Collier this morning which stated the following: “What length constitutes a book? It varies widely depending on who you ask. The U.S. Postal Service says you must have at least eight pages to qualify. International postal standards dictate that forty-nine pages is the magic number, not counting the cover. Anything under … Continue reading →
Desktop publishing design | Adobe InDesign CS5.5. There are some really neat changes. Excitingly, ePUBs exported now validate.
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