↓
 
  • Recent Posts
  • Discipleship
  • Solid food
  • Holy Spirit
  • Prophecy
  • Ministry
  • Christian Design
  • Book Production
  • Typography

Skilled Workman

••†•• Helping Christians live their life more effectively

  • Welcome!
    • Skilled Workman name
    • How I met the Lord Jesus
      • David Bergsland bio
  • Hearing Jesus
    • Most thoughts are worthless or evil
      • The three sources of your thoughts
  • Biblical Reality
    • The normal christian life
      • A solid salvation procedure
        • Will liturgical believers miss heaven
      • Endtime truths to prepare
        • Expanding the millennial vision
          • Anointed creativity
        • The Kosmos will be eliminated again
          • No nation will survive
        • Mountains and islands gotta go
      • The sad truth of a literal Christianity
        • The initial assumption is that scripture is literal
    • An important video for the Bride
    • The church needs the Holy Spirit
      • There’s one focus necessary
        • We must be who we are
        • Procedure or satisfaction — Bible or Word
        • The conversion of Truth into doctrine
        • Not Word peddlers—rhema sharers
      • The evil will be purged
        • There is no death …
        • Screw around with no consequences
    • Evangelism or discipleship we need both
      • Living in daily holiness is possible
        • Witnessing enables the Holy Spirit to add the power
  • True Faith
    • Laying the foundation for a new life
      • The power to change
      • Knowing Jesus
      • Thoughts on a conversational relationship
    • The Holy Spirit
      • Receiving Holy Spirit baptism shows wisdom
      • Functional cessationism is a major problem
    • Entering the Lord’s rest
    • Practical spiritual warfare
      • Practical advice for dealing with evil spirits
    • My Christian non-fiction books
      • How to Teach the Bible
        • How to Study Scripture and why free PDF
      • The Training Place of Mankind Second Edition
      • Writing in Holiness
      • The Narrow Gate
      • The Wife of Jesus
      • How to Live in Daily Deliverance
      • Special pricing for solid food books
  • Graphic Design
    • Niche Publishing for Believers Using InDesign
      • Presenting my ePUBs as fine art
    • Book Production
      • Micro-publishers fill a real need
    • Simple book self-publishing packages
      • Book Production video courses
    • Standard book production charges
    • Book Publishing With InDesign CC
      • ASCII Keystroke Table
    • Published production & design books
      • Writing in InDesign Producing Books
      • Using graphics in books: info and tips
      • The basic typography portion: updated to CC
  • Font Design
    • 2024 House Fonts Package available
    • Hackberry font packages available on this site
      • The Contenu Buddy Book Design package
      • The Librum Book Design Group
      • Bookish relaxed slab serif family
      • Boxy squared sans family with a light look
      • Biblia, Biblia Serif, new book production fonts
    • Practical Font Design With FontLab 5 [final edition]
      • Practical Font Design video course
      • Supplied pieces “Practical font Design”
      • Type metrics & some glyph terminology
      • Fontlab’s versions of Practical Font Design
      • Fontographer: Practical Font Design for Graphic Designers
    • FontLab or Fontographer?
  • Payments
Home→Categories On-Demand Publishing→Self-publishing - Page 2 << 1 2 3 4 … 12 13 >>

Category Archives: Self-publishing

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

Inexpensive German vanity press tredition?

Skilled Workman Posted on November 17, 2016 by David BergslandNovember 17, 2016

Here’s a link to a German self-publishing house that now is available in the US. It is a company named tredition. It seems like an inexpensive German vanity press — or maybe not. As usual, the devil is in the details. I imagine that as you get into letting them help you, the costs will go up very fast. But $299 to publish a hard cover, paperback, and ebook is a very good price. As a font designer, I enjoy … Continue reading →

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Book Production, News, On-Demand Publishing, Recent Posts, Self-publishing | Tagged inexpensive, publishing, Self-publishing, vanity press | Leave a reply

Color e-ink paperwhite: coming soon?

Skilled Workman Posted on May 26, 2016 by David BergslandMay 26, 2016

Gizmag has an interesting article today about color e-Ink. They claim it will not have any impact on ereaders. I hope they are wrong. Paperwhites, and their ilk, are one of the largest drags of ebook publishing today. They are great for simple novels and white papers. They are quite bad for non-fiction with its need for complex lists, large tables, color images, and so on. Color e-ink could bring the most popular ereaders to a new … Continue reading →

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Book Production, Kindle book design, News, Recent Posts, Self-publishing | Tagged Amazon Kindle, E-book, epub, fiction, graphics, kindle, Kobo, non-fiction, nook, publishing, reality, Self-publishing | Leave a reply

For an Author Website I recommend a WordPress blog

Skilled Workman Posted on May 17, 2016 by David BergslandApril 5, 2021

For an Author Website I recommend a WordPress blog — A traditional static site starts at about two grand. But, a fully interactive, responsive site with e-commerce can easily start at $50,000 US and go much higher than that. Obviously, this is much more than most of us need as authors—maybe. It’s also far beyond our budgets in most cases. If you want a good article on excellent author sites, from a worldly point of view, here’s … Continue reading →

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Author Writing, Book Production, Marketing, Ministry, On-Demand Publishing, Recent Posts, Self-publishing | Tagged blog, Book Design, Design Issues, gmail, hotmail, internet service provider, isp, professional, publishing, rocketmail, website, wordpress, wordpress.com, wordpress.org, yahoo | 2 Replies

Is Kindle worse or just archaic?

Skilled Workman Posted on April 22, 2016 by David BergslandApril 22, 2016

Mumble, grumble, PITA, ;oebpa;b/ hkvo… Ok! Now that’s off my chest. I just had fits with a Kindle book for a client. I use to do them first (after the print/PDF versions were complete) because they were such a pain in the a…, but I’ve begun doing them last because they’re just bleah. Working with Kindle formatting seems like stepping back a decade. For me, the ePUB problems have largely been solved: paragraph shading, anchored graphics, embedded … Continue reading →

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Author Writing, Book Production, Kindle book design, Recent Posts, Self-publishing | Tagged Amazon Kindle, Book Design, challenges, Design Issues, E-book, e-ink, image issues, image quality, IPad, kindle, Kobo, nook, reality, Self-publishing | 4 Replies

Book Publishing With InDesign CC: Spiral-bound

Skilled Workman Posted on April 19, 2016 by David BergslandApril 19, 2016

Even after over forty-five years, there’s still that little thrill when you see a finished book for the first time. It’s too bad that Amazon won’t carry them. But, they are the best choice for the classroom or self-study. The spiral-bound workbook I had to cut out the Christian marketing section to get the page count below the 470 page maximum for spiral-bound. The only thing I really miss are the color graphics. To get that (and … Continue reading →

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, ePUB, Kindle book design, On-Demand Publishing, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Typography | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Amazon Kindle, Book Design, Design Issues, epub, graphic design, iBooks, kindle, Kobo, nook, publishing, reality, Self-publishing, Typography | 1 Reply

A free sample of “Book Publishing With InDesign CC” is available

Skilled Workman Posted on April 8, 2016 by David BergslandApril 11, 2016

I’ve published a sample of the new book on the Adobe servers. It’s about 75 pages of the various sections of the book. If you are interested in a review copy I recommend the PDF is reader’s spreads with the full color graphics. Let me know if you are interested. Here’s a link to the page with more information and purchase links. If word processor book production is taking up too much time and the results are … Continue reading →

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Book Design, Book Production, ePUB, ePUB3, Illustration, New Book Release, On-Demand Publishing, Pre-release Excerpts, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Typography | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book Design, Christian, Design Issues, E-book, epub, graphic design, iBooks, kindle, Kobo, nook, on-demand, OpenType, page layout, professional, publishing, Readability, reality, Self-publishing, Typography | 3 Replies

Page Layout Part 5: Graphic needs of the formats

Skilled Workman Posted on March 10, 2016 by David BergslandMarch 26, 2016

Graphic needs for Print, PDF, ePUB, & Kindle KFX For book publishing, what you need to understand about graphics is how usage varies in the different formats. You’ll need to hand-adjust to produce the graphics for the various formats. Automation causes many problems. I’m just going to list the four options and their requirements, best formats, and so on. Greyscale print with color cover Lulu & Createspace, plus professional on-demand like Lightning source: You need to be careful. … Continue reading →

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Book Design, ePUB, Illustration, Kindle book design, On-Demand Publishing, Pre-release Excerpts, Recent Posts, Self-publishing | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book Design, Design Issues, ebook design, epub, graphic design, graphics, on-demand, page layout, pdf, Portable Document Format, publishing, Self-publishing | Leave a reply

Self-publishing Front & Back matter: It’s all about the reader

Skilled Workman Posted on March 1, 2016 by David BergslandMarch 1, 2018

Today, in this third post on formatting, I want to talk about many things which have been lost in the rush toward ebooks: self-publishing front back matter. This is an excerpt from my book: Book Publishing With InDesign CC Many reader services are no longer written or included. Most of this is simply because of the inexperience and lack of training by the normal self-publishing novelist and writer of devotions. You should take a look and seriously … Continue reading →

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, New Book Release, Readability, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Typography | Tagged afterword, appendix, back matter, Book Design, ebook, font matter, frontispiece, half title, introduction, list of figures, preface, print, prologue, publishing | 3 Replies

Basic Page Layout: Part 2, Margins & Columns

Skilled Workman Posted on February 29, 2016 by David BergslandFebruary 26, 2016

This is part two of the new series on page layout from my new book, Self-Publishing With InDesign CC. We continue with two of the most important controls for readability. To the left is an example of bad design. The body text is Berthold Baskerville Book 8/12, while the caption is Adobe Garamond Pro 6/7. So, no one can read it—too small. The columns are so narrow that there are only 7-9 words per line with the average closer … Continue reading →

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, New Book Release, Recent Posts, Self-publishing | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book Design, Column, graphic design, margins, page layout, publishing, Self-publishing, Typography | Leave a reply

Studying poster design to help your covers

Skilled Workman Posted on February 24, 2016 by David BergslandFebruary 24, 2016

CREATIVE PRO HAS AN EXCELLENT ARTICLE TODAY on poster design. I mention this because authors without the trained eye of the designer make embarrassing design mistakes because this knowledge is not part of their understanding. Self-publishers must train their eyes Books like Ellen’s shown above are a real help as you expand your knowledge beyond the narrow confines of writing and editing. What writers are normally not aware of is the constant visual input which is the … Continue reading →

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, GraphicDesign, Images, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Typography | Tagged 99designs, Adobe InDesign, anointed design, Book Design, Design Issues, graphic design, Graphic designer, publishing, reality, Self-publishing | Leave a reply

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

I rarely use phones.
Email is best: david at bergsland dot org
275 Sandalwood Dr, Rochester, NY 14616
This site uses the pseudonyms of Bergsland Design for design work; and Radiqx Press for publishing. Both of these have been used for some time beginning in the past millennium. The Skilled Workman was begun in 2011 dealing with spiritual teachings about our Messiah and the Holy Spirit he sent to us to help us. If you want to meet Jesus, click here.

Categories

Biblical Reality Substack

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog.

Join 1,846 other subscribers

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Email

TekkyGarp

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Alert! Occasionally making money.

© David Bergsland and The Skilled Workman, 2008-2023. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to David Bergsland and The Skilled Workman with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
Our website may contain affiliate marketing links, which means we may get paid commission on sales of those products or services we write about. Our editorial content is not influenced by advertisers or affiliate partnerships. This disclosure is provided in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR § 255.5: Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.
©2025 - Skilled Workman - Weaver Xtreme Theme
↑
 

Loading Comments...
 

    %d