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Reedsy simple book formatting & free!

Skilled Workman Posted on July 28, 2016 by David BergslandJuly 28, 2016

I received this email today from the Skilled Workman contact form: From Martin at Reedsy simple book formatting: “I’m part of the team behind the Reedsy Book Editor, an online tool that helps independent authors write, collaborate on, and format their projects. It exports in EPUB3 and print-ready PDF and we’ve been getting really great feedback from our Authors. We’ve just published a post on how to format books and thought perhaps you and your readers might find it … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Production, Recent Posts | Tagged basic novel design, Book Design, browser tool, epub, free, simple book formatting, Word processing

Where is the future of books?

Skilled Workman Posted on June 29, 2016 by David BergslandJune 29, 2016

I just posted a link to this article from The Bookseller: stating the digital revolution is definitely not over. Of course, that is one of those DUH! facts. The future of books is even more complex than you may think, though. How do we deal with audio, video, interactive content, and so on? Basically… The future of books is in the readers’ hands We really don’t know where it will go. Is a book, with a movie … Continue reading →

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Posted in Audio Books, Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, ePUB3, Recent Posts | Tagged Book Design, challenges, Design Issues, epub, publishing, Self-publishing

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 →

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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

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 →

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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

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 →

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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

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 →

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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

Returning to InDesign CC (2014)

Skilled Workman Posted on August 3, 2015 by David BergslandAugust 3, 2015

Some of you have wondered why there’s been no update to CC (2015) in the book. Basically nothing was changed, I thought. So, I found no reason to update though I was using the new version for my production. It works very well. However, I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to temporarily go back to (2014) for InDesign. I’ve been working a very limited schedule lately due to other things I need to get done. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Production, ePUB3, News, Recent Posts, Self-publishing | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book Design, book production, challenges, ebook production, epub, InDesign, reality, Self-publishing

Readability is the prime virtue of book design

Skilled Workman Posted on July 28, 2015 by David BergslandJuly 28, 2015

I decided I needed to beat an old drum. Readability is the focus of book design typography. This was the core of curriculum in my digital publishing degree. It’s the center of my graphic design and book design efforts. Without comfortable, readable content, your book has a severe handicap. What is readability? This is all about book design typography. Here’s a little graphic to show you some of the things that influence how easily you can read a … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Font Design, Readability, Recent Posts, Typography, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book Design, Design Issues, E-book, epub, InDesign, OpenType, page layout, publishing, Readability, reality, Typography

Make more with five book sets than 5 single books

Skilled Workman Posted on March 3, 2015 by David BergslandMarch 3, 2015

I was talking to my author friend, Guy Stanton III, today and he shared this with me. Many of you already know this, but it’s worth a mention anyway. You know what’s really ironic, David, about combining all the books into one boxed set? I will make more money on the sale of the boxed set than if I had sold the entire series individually, but what’s even cooler is that the customer is going to pay … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Book Production, Recent Posts | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Amazon Kindle, Book Design, book marketing, boxed set, Design Issues, E-book, epub, iBooks, Kobo, one book trilogy, page layout, publishing, Self-publishing

Ebooks have made a major leap in quality

Skilled Workman Posted on February 10, 2015 by David BergslandFebruary 17, 2015

For example, I got this official word today: “Yes, Kobo now accepts FXL EPUBs exported from InDesign and they can be put on sale, they have confirmed the same. The FXL EPUB output from ID also renders correctly on a Kobo device.” Now that is certainly good news which is to be added with the existing iBooks acceptance of ePUB3 books. But the real change has happened more subtly. All distributors now accept ebooks with embedded fonts I … Continue reading →

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