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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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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

Why embedded fonts matter for your ebooks

Skilled Workman Posted on September 9, 2013 by David BergslandSeptember 9, 2013

Today I want to talk about an area of ePUB and Kindle design which is never mentioned. The reason it is not mentioned is that only iBooks and Kindle Fire have the capability. There are a few peripheral apps that can: Bluefire on the iPad & Readium on Chrome, plus there may be more on Android, but I have no way to test that. There is a huge difference between the two options   You can clearly … 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: InDesign Ebooks Conversions, 2nd Edition

Skilled Workman Posted on August 7, 2013 by David BergslandSeptember 13, 2013

Updating the ebook conversions techniques to InDesign CC Your book is ready to print How do I produce my ebooks? Here’s a set of workable techniques: InDesign Ebook Conversions for $2.99 If you had enough sense to fully format your book in InDesign, the answer to how to make ebooks is “easily, though not simply”. The largest problem most graphic designers have is that this whole “ebook thing” is a confusing mishmash of options and possibilities. This book … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Production, ePUB, Kindle book design, Recent Posts, Self-publishing | Tagged Adobe InDesign, apple, converting books to ebooks, desktop publishing, E-book, ebook production, epub, epub design, HTML, iBooks, kindle book design, Kobo, nook | Leave a 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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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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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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