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Indie Publishing Companies

0-to-minimal author fee Writer’s Digest:

2009 Directory of Self-Publishing Companies Annotated list of 66 companies

Self-Publishing resources Self-publishing vendors

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Indie Publishing Companies

Lulu.comNo Set Up Fees Or Minimum Order!

Wordclay.com Very affordable (it can't get more affordable than free);publishing service provides a plethora of publishing options, get additional publishing, distribution and marketing services.

48HrBooks.comBasically a production-only company; easy cost calculator; good illustration of process; good templates; good PDF tutorial on how to use Word template.

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Lulu: “Video on How to Publish a Book”

http://luluhow2video.notlong.com/

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Lulu #2 – Overview of steps

Source: https://support.lulu.com/View.jsp?procId=fdb89582c4f5da4aedfbeab98261e059&from=SearchAll_10

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Lulu Points of Advantage and Caution

Double check with designer on size and placing of ISBN & barcode

Always order a “trial” or “proof” version(s) of your book to check color, font, paper and inking, etc.

Double check graphics DPI settings For all black and white books (except comic size), the

source document and images should be in grayscale mode. For full color books, the source document and/or images

should be in the original colorspace. If it was created in RGB, DO NOT convert it to CMYK and vice versa.

If your full color book contains black and white images, set each black and white image to grayscale.

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Book Manuscript Templates Whether creating a PDF or having Lulu convert

a document to a PDF, source document must be properly formatted. Read following to learn about style use:

“So You Want to Write a Book with MS Word”http://daiya.mvps.org/bookwordnoframes.htm

Book: “Self-publishing using OpenOffice.org 3 Writer”www.lulu.com/content/7801648

Open Office Writers group. Our focus is to develop a better tool for writing books and novels and also to discuss how to improve the template. http://groups.google.com/group/open-office-writers?hl=en&pli=1

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Desktop Publishing Tools

Learning Curve/Complexity/Quality

Price

~$0

~$50

~$200

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WordProcessing

programs

•MS Publisher•PagePlus

Open Source•Scribus

•Adobe InDesign

Latest version retail: $200+

Older version discount: $45-75

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Software Tools

Word Processor MS Word OpenOffice.org (free/shareware) Pure-Mac.com for list

Low-cost Layout programs MS Publisher (Windows) PagePlus X4 (Windows) Swift Publisher (Mac)

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Book Manuscript Templates Go to

http://www.lulu.com/publish/books/#bookSpecs

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Book Manuscript Templates

Ruler settings

Footer and Auto-page # inserted

Note: Download and save “pure”

version of template. Then open and save a copy with your unique file name.

No header inserted; You do it. Go to “DRAW” (in Word) to

view grid Enter dummy text. Set to

your stylebook. Copy and paste your text into

template.

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Editing Considerations

1. Consistency

2. Page SizeSet your document's page size to match the page size of your book.

3. Simplicity in font selection

4. White Space

5. Initial Caps?When you start a chapter, use initial caps (or “drop caps”). That's when the first letter in a chapter is very large, spanning 2-3 lines.

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6. Editing Considerations

6. New PagesUse CTRL-Enter in Microsoft Word, or Insert Break Page Break

7. Headers and Footers• Start with Page One on right. • The first page of a chapter should have a blank header. • MS Word has its most useful header and footer controls in

Page Setup under the File menu.

8. Line length“Alphabet test” to set line length: type every lowercase letter from a to z. You should be able to fit 2 to 3 alphabets on your line:abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmno

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Editing Considerations

6. Lines Per Page• For a 6" x 9" book, <30 lines per page is good.

50 lines or less is good for an 8.5" x 11" book. • You can set these across your document by

using 1.5 line spacing using the Paragraph tools under the Format menu.

7. Paragraph Formatting• Set and use tab key! You should also

pay close attention to the spacing between paragraphs.

• Justify your paragraphs!

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Editing Considerations8. Gutter

• Add a little space for the gutter, the inside margin. (Remember, even pages left; odd right)

• Microsoft Word allows you to compensate for this in Page Setup under the File menu.

• Set your document for Mirror Margins, Whole Document, and make the gutter 0.1 or 0.2, depending on the thickness of your book.

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Example of MSS page

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Example of MSS page

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Example of MSS page

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MSS to PDF

Lulu’s “How to Make a PDF“http://lulupdf.notlong.com

Print-to-PDF Search “shareware pdf printer” PDFCreator

AutoSave files to folders and filenames based on Tags like Username, Computername, Date, Time, etc.

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Organizing your “project space”

1. Create a folder on flashdrive called “self-publish_workshop”

2. In that, create two sub-folders “virgin_templates” & “camera_ready”

3. In “self-publish_workshop” create sub-folder “chpt001”

4. In “chpt001” create sub-folders“chpt001_text” and “chpt001_art”

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Hard Drive tree should look like this

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Lulu template_download_page

Source: http://www.lulu.com/publish/books/?cid=publish_portal

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Lulu_template_ZIPPED_files

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Template flowchart

FOLDER=files_for_USBUSB

flashdrive

#5ustrade_template

.doc

Click to open file…

#6

FOLDER=virgin_templates

Save file to….#7

#8-Open

“ustrade_template.doc”

#9-Save

as “chpt001_text.doc”

FOLDER=chpt001

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Filing files

5. Go to flashdrive folder “files_for_USB”

6. Locate file “ustrade_template.doc”7. Open that file and save it as

“ustrade_template.doc” to your “virgin_templates” folder

8. Go to “virgin_templates” folder; open “ustrade_template.doc”

9. Save that file as “chpt001_text” in your “chpt001” folder

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MS Word template page

FileSaveAsin folder“chpt001_text”as”chpt001_test”

(NB: “TEST” not “TEXT”)

Shift here to Word

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Should see a Word page thusly

Change folder destination

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“Interrogating” page set-up

10. Note in menu bar “%” of document; set at 75%

11. To left of that is icon ¶ That is “hard return”

12. Go to “View” in menu bar

13. Click on “Header and Footer”

14. Note “rules” in those regions

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Beginning chapter formating

10.Place cursor in header box to left of ¶ symbol

11. Type “This is Chapter I” – DO NOT hit carriage return.

12.First significant decision for design stylebook: What is style for chapter number?1. One or ONE or 1 or I

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Typography Basics

See “Printing Basics”http://fosiexpert.com/files/print-basics-090301.pdf

Measurement English or inches Millimeter and centimeter Traditional points and picas

12pts to the pica 6 picas to the inch 72pts to the inch

Postscript points –The traditional point has been supplanted by the desktop publishing point (also called the PostScript point), which has been rounded to an even 72 points to the inch (1

point = 127⁄360 mm ≈ 0.353 mm). In either system, there are 12 points to the pica. Typography Unit Converter

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Typography Basics

Measurement Points and picas Millimeter and centimeter English or inches

Type sizes Points (printers today seem to be working as much

or more with inches when doing layout) Leading: 10pt/12pt Em and en spaces and dashes

Column width and characters

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Picas Rule…

…especially in multi-column designs, i.e. “grid, or modular, design”

Set visible rulers to picas and points, esp. if using publication design program (Not easy with Word. (The leading grid is based on points, so a ruler in inches is useless.)

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Picas Rule… Set 0 mark of each ruler to the upper-left

corner of the page, within the margins. You do not want 0,0 to be outside of the margins, or you cannot easily set accurate grid rules. (Not easy with Word.)

Typically, 10pt. type on 12pt leading Helpful site:

http://www.tameri.com/dtp/grids.html Key Point: Create your stylebook; be

consistent!

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Reading the printed word

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Column-to-type-size ratio

Source: White, Jan V. “Editing By Design,” (Edition: 3 - 2003 ) p. 101

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Main Categories of Type Faces

And multiple subclasses

Can be bought and downloaded from www.fontshop.com

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Decorative fonts

Decorative Type faces Algerian Britanic Bold Broadway

Brush ScriptMistral

Theme of document? Legibility?

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Selecting your font(s)

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Serif or sans-serif?Top Ten Typefaces Used by Book Design Winners

Go here for examples of any font: http://www.fontshop.com/

Serif vs. Sans Serif debate here

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Same size type isn’t

The amount of leading (line spacing) depends on the height of the characters

The size of the type depends on the length of the line of type, i.e. column width

Wider line = bigger leading & type

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Adventures in reading

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Selecting Headline Fonts

Personal taste, but… Sans serif possibly for covers,

headers & footers Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Tahoma

Rarely used smaller than 8-9 pt. Do not use reverse type smaller

than 14pt (and maybe even larger)

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Selecting fonts

Personal taste, but… Sans serif for covers, headers & footers Body text: Baskerville, , Garamond, Janson, Palatino, and Times Roman

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X-height X-height refers to the height of the lower

case "x" in a typeface. It is often a better indicator of the apparent size of a typeface than point size

Source: http://www.alexpoole.info/academic/literaturereview.html

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Your typefaces

Pay attention to the spacing between letters and x-height when picking a font.

Make sure the font you choose does not have an unusually small x-height.

Make conscious decisions about whether to use serif or sans-serif font.

For longer texts, use sans-serif fonts. For shorter texts, use serif or sans-serif fonts.

Source: “In Search of the Perfect Font” http://www.unc.edu/~jkullama/inls181/final/serif.html

Guidelines

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