By Sandy Gould, Direct Sales Manager, Color House Graphics Originally published on the Color House Graphics blog as Book Binding Styles. Whether you are putting together a softcover book or a creating deluxe hardcover edition, the same quality and attention to detail...
You’ve done all the hard work, and now it’s time to print and distribute your self-published book. What are your options? In this article, we look specifically at paperbacks and hardcover books. We’ve covered ebook distribution in other blog posts, notably Your...
Guest post by Sandy Gould, Direct Sales Manager, Color House Graphics Having good print-ready files helps keep your book project on time and on budget. Whether you’re printing digital or offset, it is important to be sure you have all print specifications...
I was recently asked what an author should know before hiring a self-publishing company. Before we start, you should understand what a self-publishing company IS and IS NOT. 1106 Design, for example, is not a self-publishing company. We provide services to authors and...
Type “cheapest way to self-publish a book” into your search engine of choice, and you will retrieve any number of articles giving you advice on how to do just that. One recently published article also told readers the “best way” in addition to the cheapest. I thought...
How does a book become an eBook? Two ways: eBook conversion and eBook formatting. These two paths from print to eBooks both involve the insertion of codes to format the text in a way that an eBook reader will understand, but your choice of path should be based on the...