by Michele DeFilippo | Nov 22, 2015 | 1106 Design delivers, 1106 Design offers, Book Printing, eBooks, Self-publishing for professionals
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... by Michele DeFilippo | Oct 26, 2015 | 1106 Design delivers, 1106 Design offers, Book Cover Design, Book Cover Evaluation, Book Distribution, Book Interior Design, Book Marketing, Book Printing, Editing & Proofreading, Finding & Evaluating a Designer, How to Self-publish a Book, Printing & Distribution, Publishing Business, Publishing Options, Self-publishing for professionals
1106 Design is pleased to announce that it is now a recommended resource for IngramSpark, the company that provides “Big House Publishing for Indie Publishers,” and has been “digitally certified” by IngramSpark as being a book design company that formats books to... by Michele DeFilippo | Sep 18, 2015 | Book Distribution, Book Interior Design, Book Printing, How to Self-publish a Book, Publishing Business, Self-publishing for professionals
So I want you to visualize your book. Close your eyes and imagine holding your finished book in your hands. Look at the cover. The images, colors, fonts—what stands out for you? What do you like? How will it measure up to best sellers? I hope you’re feeling really... 
by Michele DeFilippo | Sep 3, 2015 | Book Marketing, Book Printing, Publishing Options
If you’re familiar with print-on-demand services, you will be interested to know that IngramSpark offers pre-ordering. With this option, publishers can make their books available for pre-ordering by retailers, libraries, schools and others on Ingram’s list of 39,000... by Michele DeFilippo | Aug 2, 2015 | 1106 Design offers, Book Cover Design, Book Interior Design, Book Marketing Plan, Book Printing, Business Development, Editing & Proofreading, Editorial Evaluation, How to Self-publish a Book, Self-publishing for professionals
Marketing professionals are under the impression that we need to be told things are “easy.” Easy steps. Easy financing. Get where you want to go without effort. Increasingly, we also want things to be “free,” but that’s another blog post. The same extends to... by Michele DeFilippo | Jul 20, 2015 | Book Printing, Editing & Proofreading
A recent article in The Guardian about missing sentences in the closing pages of Harper Lee’s new novel Go Set a Watchman, made me think again about the importance of proofing, and the proofing process in general. Apparently, a number of copies of the book’s... 