In book printing the front and back covers are massively important – the front cover is what will initially catch the eye of a reader, but it’s often the back cover that the reader will spend more time perusing and considering. The back cover is a great marketing vehicle for your book and, if you […]
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Booklet printing is a great printing vehicle if you want to produce catalogues, magazines or even small books. When producing your PDF to submit to your printer to produce your booklets, there are some aspects that you need to consider: Think about page counts – both front and back of each page Binding options can […]
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Whenever you are writing a book, one of the biggest considerations is how to get the work published when it is finished. Self-publishing has become an easier option with the advent and progression of different software applications for book printing. Once you have decided to follow this option, there are steps necessary in order to […]
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There are many different aspects to bespoke book printing to consider when bringing a book to shops and libraries. One of the most important features is the book cover design – the main function of a book cover is to grab the attention of a potential buyer/reader for your work. You need a book cover […]
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There has been much research in recent years into how people prefer to read and how effective and efficient reading from printed paper text compares with digital text vehicles such as e-books, laptops, tablets and such – and the findings are not, perhaps, what you might have expected! Rate of change has been steep It […]
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Often, when people are using a new product, there is a temptation to ‘just get on with it’ and set about trying the product without consulting any accompanying instruction manual or user guide. Some users may consider the user guide as either unnecessary or simply just too difficult to follow! In order to encourage new […]
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The main function of any user instruction manual is to provide clear and concise instructions as to how to use a specific product, item or service. Whilst this may seem an obvious statement, many user guides have incomplete, incorrect or difficult to follow instructions – here are some guidelines to compiling successful, understandable, easy-to-follow instruction […]
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There are many things a self-publishing author needs to consider; we have put together a few of the items that will help and guide you through the process. 1. Do I need an ISBN? You only need an ISBN if you want to make your book available through the likes of Amazon or any other […]
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Many people think about writing a book and seeing it in print on a bookshelf somewhere – whether that somewhere is in a book shop or library, or simply sat proudly on their own coffee table at home, it is now a relatively straightforward process to get your hard work onto a printed page by […]
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Many of us dream of writing a successful novel or maybe just having an idea for a story published for our own benefit. Traditionally, this would seem a daunting, and unlikely achievement – for commercial book printing you would need the work to be of a specific quality and obtain an agent and a publisher […]
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