If you want to make your designer’s day, here’s a few simple rules on how you can prepare your manuscript before sending it off for formatting – four DO’s and three DON’Ts!
How to make sure that your EPUB meets the accessibility criteria? And what does accessiblity even mean?
The goal of correctly formatting a book is giving your reader a comfortable reading experience… but sometimes, you’re faced with a choice of “what will make the reader the least uncomfortable” (because fixing one thing will make other, worse mistakes pop up two pages later). When you’re not a professional, it’s not that easy to make the call and decide what to keep, and what absolutely needs to be fixed. Here’s a list of 6 mistakes that you should definitely avoid if you want to make your book look presentable.
A short guide to make your novel’s layout fun, unique, and eye-catching – with decorations, drop caps and small caps, and other methods.
Self-publishing means dealing with A LOT of different files – in all possible formats. Here’s short guide to all the textual and visual file formats that you might find useful as an author.
When publishing a book, you may find yourself facing a dilemma – should I publish a paper edition only, or should I also have an e-book? In the paragraphs below, you will find all the basic information you need – I will show you why e-books are worth the hassle and guide you through different formats and their pros and cons.
If you’ve ever wondered how does the interior book formatting process looks like, here’s a short, but comprehensive text that will guide through it – step-by-step.
Ready to write to a book designer and ask for a quote? Learn what you should include in a book design brief!
In this episode, we’ll look at which images you can use on your book cover – and which ones you can’t. Let’s start – here’s Book Image Copyright 101!
In this episode, we’ll look at some basic printing terms that you might want to know to understand what your designer and printer are talking about!