"I want to choose the image(s) my designer will use on my book cover. But there are millions of photos and illustrations on the royalty-free stock photography websites! How do I find the right one?" Finding the right image can be a long, drawn-out, frustrating process. Almost as bad as writing the book! Here are … Continue reading Choosing a Cover Image
Category: EBook Design
Pictures in Your Book
"I'd love to include some photos and illustrations in my book. What do I need to know before I contact my graphic artist or start shopping on a stock photo site?" In my hands, I have a 1965 edition of Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Emeralds. One of the pages has a full-colour … Continue reading Pictures in Your Book
Go with the Flowable
"The word prestidigitation is hyphenated so that prest- is at the bottom of one page and idigitation is all by itself at the top of the next page. It looks awful. Can you make it not hyphenate?" Your Friendly Formatter replies that she can't see the problem in the file previewer on her computer and assures you that … Continue reading Go with the Flowable
Why Your eBook Doesn’t Look Like Your Print Book
"It looks fabulous!" said a client of the print book I delivered. "It makes me happy just to flip through it!" "It's so... um... consistent?" said the same client when reviewing her ebook. "Why don't the two books look the same?" True observations and a common question. As shown in figures A and B, samples of … Continue reading Why Your eBook Doesn’t Look Like Your Print Book
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