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Book Printing: 15 Ways to Save Money Printing Your Books

By John Kremer on Thursday, April 21st, 2011 | Comments Off

The following post is a reprint of a report I offered many years ago while promoting my Directory of Book Printers. With the new age of digital printing, PDFs or Postscript files, etc., some of these points are probably not as important as they once were. That’s good. 1. Minimize editorial changes. Try to make [...]

Book Covers: Paper Stock and Cover Finishes

By John Kremer on Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 | Comments Off

Question: It is probably too late to get the desired paper stock and cover finish for my book, as it’s already with the printer. However, I have been trying all year to find out the specs for any of a handful of titles that I particularly admire. This has become an obsession. My book designer [...]

Who’s Holding Your Book Hostage? Not the Book Cover Designer

By John Kremer on Thursday, April 7th, 2011 | Comments Off

This is a promotional video for our new companion website, AskTheCoverDesigner.com, which features articles and answers covering book covers, book titles, typesetting, layout, and book design. We’ve uploaded it to YouTube and added it to a few of our other Ask websites (links to the other Ask websites are at the bottom left of any [...]

Print-on-Demand: Lightning Source

By John Kremer on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 | Comments Off

Question: I currently have one book being distributed by a distributor and I am about to publish a second. I don’t believe I will be going with the distributor again. I am wondering what you think about Lightning Source for POD and distribution to Ingram and Amazon? I’m asking because, things are changing so rapidly in [...]