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Why InDesign is even less optional than it was

Skilled Workman Posted on June 18, 2014 by David BergslandJune 18, 2014

Click to enlarge As you know, I am convinced that you are hurting your chances with your book if you do not use InDesign in the production process. This is even more true now that InDesign CC 2014 has added the direct export of fixed layout ePUBs. Plus, no one exports the quality of PDF produced by InDesign for print and downloadable PDFs. InDesign now has five ebook export options Actually, with all the options, there are even … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, ePUB, ePUB3, Kindle book design, Marketing, News, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Book, costs of self publishing, epub3, ePUBs, how do I self-publish, iBooks, kindle, Kobo, nook, pdfs, print books, publishing, Self-publishing | 11 Replies

Book Production speed becomes more important…

Skilled Workman Posted on February 19, 2014 by David BergslandFebruary 19, 2014

Mark Coker makes the following prediction for 2014: Production takes on increased importance in 2014 – One of the most important secrets to ebook publishing success is to write more books. As a writer, your writing is your unique creation. It’s your product. Authors who write great books (and produce more of them), are the authors who build sales and platform the fastest, because each new book represents an opportunity to please existing fans and hook new … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Production, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Writing In InDesign | Tagged E-book, Ebook Publishing, efficiency, Mark Coker, production, publishing, Publishing and Printing, smashwords, speed | 2 Replies

Why does list quality matter in your ePUB?

Skilled Workman Posted on January 27, 2014 by David BergslandJanuary 27, 2014

Yea, I know, here goes David off on another of his “professional quality” rants again…. But this one’s important! Lists are #3 in reading importance The studies I’ve seen [and please prove me wrong if you know better] show that, after picture captions and headlines, lists are third in reader importance. Many readers look for lists as they start skimming when they get bored. They assume that a list will give them a synopsis and let them … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Book Production, ePUB, Readability, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Cascading Style Sheets, design, epub, excellence, HTML, InDesign, Readability, Typography, wordpress | Leave a reply

InDesign CC ePUBs now handle floating graphics fairly well

Skilled Workman Posted on January 20, 2014 by David BergslandJanuary 20, 2014

There are always going to be complaints. But I can do everything I want to do with anchored graphics right now. With one major exception: It’s hard to predict what will happen with a graphic crossing a page break. If it’s floating, it may just not render. I can understand that. I really don’t have any idea how to handle that. But I can simply change my graphic so it doesn’t float and the page break will … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, ePUB, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Systems, epub, epub design, epub2, epub3, floating graphics, graphics, InDesign, InDesign CC, InDesign CC9.2, IPad, Portable Document Format, TypeKit | 2 Replies

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

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

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

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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