This is the ONLY book of its kind. It shows you not only WHAT to do and WHY, but also HOW to do it—step by step. “Regardless of design background, anyone who wants to design and produce a professional-looking book should find everything they need in Book Design Made Simple.”—Clarion Reviews Two book design experts explain how to turn a creative vision into a well-designed book: easily lease, install, and get started using Adobe InDesigninsert text and images into real book pageschoose from multiple design samples for every featuretypeset like a prodesign a book cover in easy stepsgather and upload files for printing and ebook conversion A step-by-step guide to designing, printing, and publishing a book. Designing know what your book should includelearn basics of cover and page designcustomize a design for your bookchoose appropriate fontsmaster typesetting do’s and don’ts Printing choose your optimum trim sizeunderstand color for printingget the right image resolutionsend perfect PDF files to your printeruse digital and/or offset printing Publishing know your target marketunderstand ISBNs and bar codescreate a robust copyright pagedesign a book cover for top salesoptimize for bookstores and libraries Gold medal award winner “What indie authors have wanted—and what they keep asking me for—is step-by-step instruction in creating industry standard books with today’s tools and for today’s book production requirements. That’s what Book Design Made Simple delivers, and it does so beautifully.”—Joel Friedlander, The Book Designer blogger A note from the authors, Fiona Raven and Glenna Collett: We’ve seen the number of self-publishing authors and independent publishers increase dramatically with the advent of on-demand printing. We wrote Book Design Made Simple so that anyone can design a professional-looking book and give it the polish it needs to stand out in today’s competitive book market. You can do it yourself.
✔ Author(s): Fiona Raven,Glenna Collett
✔ Title: Book Design Made Simple
✔ Rating : 4.7 out of 5 base on (90 reviews)
✔ ISBN-10: 0994096925
✔ Language: English
✔ Format ebook: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, HTML and MOBI
✔ Device compatibles: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle
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