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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

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

The new Self-Publishing Handbook is released!

Skilled Workman Posted on May 11, 2013 by David BergslandMay 11, 2013

My handbook for the new breed of self-publisher is out! Why do you need to read this book? As I have become involved with the amazing variety of the new breed of authors—self publishing pioneers, it has been stunning to watch and listen as they discuss the problems they are having because they are working in Word. If they are dealing with quality issues, Word rarely has an answer. In fact, it’s sad to see that there … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, Christian Design, On-Demand Publishing, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Amazon Kindle, Book, Book Design, DIY publisting, how do I self-publish, iBooks, InDesign, publishing, Self-publishing, what does it cost to self-publish | 3 Replies

Just released a 69 page preview of my Self Publishing Handbook

Skilled Workman Posted on April 25, 2013 by David BergslandApril 25, 2013

The book is due out in May, 2013. It will be called: Practical Professional Self Publishing Handbook The book is written for those authors who recognize that professional production is key to having their books taken seriously. They are also tired of paying hundreds or thousands of dollars every time they release a book. In addition, they are sick of the need to be constantly contacting their designer to get special previews, gift editions, updates, and all … Continue reading →

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The Book Designer’s Book Typography and Fonts package

Skilled Workman Posted on April 2, 2013 by David BergslandOctober 4, 2017

Make your book professional with the Contenu/Buddy production group Self Publisher Book Typography & 16 Fonts Only $49.99 or 12 Radiqx house fonts for book design Only $29.99 For self publishers the conversion from Word to InDesign is a huge leap. The goal is a professional look to their book designs, but immediately the problems of typography raise their head. In Word that is not so much of an issue because the typography controls in Word are … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Font Design, Fonts for sale, Hackberry Fonts, Sales, Self-publishing | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book Design, buddy, contenu, font, font design, font package, graphic design, OpenType, Self-publishing, Typography | 2 Replies

The sadness of Word & how it’s damaging self publishing

Skilled Workman Posted on January 30, 2013 by David BergslandJanuary 30, 2013

As I have become more social online, the prevailing grief for me is listening to all the new authors whose main problem is that they are using Word. Whether it’s one of my Facebook groups like Christian Indie Authors or Indie Christian Authors, a Google+ community like Christian Authors, or the authors who tweet, the ones in Linked-In groups, or GoodReads groups, and many more, the common lament is, “How do I do this in Word?” The … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, Christian Design, ePUB, Kindle book design, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book Design, CS6, iBooks, InDesign, OpenOffice, Pages, professional, Scrivener, Typography, word, Word processor | 27 Replies

Typography does not start with font design

Skilled Workman Posted on January 5, 2013 by David BergslandJanuary 5, 2013

This is the first major confusion in typography. Many believe that typography is font choices. They spend a huge amount of time on which fonts to choose, how fonts developed historically, and the reader reactions to these fonts. This indeed is a good portion of typography, but this pursuit misses the entire point. The point of typography is to use words to communicate. Font choices can help—but this is really a small portion of what we need … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, Christian Design, Self-publishing, Typography | Tagged Book Design, font, font design, formatting, graphic design, page layout, Typography | 2 Replies

The use of InDesign & Photoshop is essential stewardship for DIY publishers

Skilled Workman Posted on December 28, 2012 by David BergslandDecember 28, 2012

This morning I am reading an article by Marc Coker  (the founder of Smashwords) about what’s coming in near future for authors and publishers. He has some very good things to say. Here’s a quote that is particularly relevant to us. As a self published author, you’re the publisher. You’re running a business. The lifeblood of a business is profit, because profit generates cash. If you run out of cash, you go out of business. Since profit … Continue reading →

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Books, even ebooks, need good tools (InDesign CS6)

Skilled Workman Posted on October 1, 2012 by David BergslandOctober 1, 2012

No! You can’t do it in BBEdit or Word It all comes back to the print/ebook divide. That divide is only apparent to the book designers. For the readers, a book is a book. Ebooks are cheaper (or should be). Normal printed books are high resolution, typographic marvels. But to the reader, a book is a book. For authors, publishing only a print version or only an ebook version is worse than silly—it’s foolish. If you want … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, ePUB, Kindle book design, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Typography, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book Design, CSS, E-book, ebook design, epub, HTML, JPEG, pdf, print books, print to epub, print to kindle, smashwords, vector graphics | 1 Reply

Writers designing their own books in InDesign? Of course!

Skilled Workman Posted on September 24, 2012 by David BergslandSeptember 24, 2012

I posted last week about the dangers of allowing your ebook to degenerate into a Website. After all, “An ebook is just encapsulated HTML & CSS.” It was basically a plea to design your ebooks in InDesign. I missed making my core point. I wasn’t saying that code geeks cannot design ebooks. I was saying that most coders are not designers, but technicians. One of my commenters (Tom) suggested that writers are just as bad as coding … Continue reading →

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