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Book Design. Book Construction Blueprint. Self-Publishing Basics: An Unabridged List of the Parts of a Book. The history of book printing goes back to the first bibles pulled sheet by sheet off Johannes Gutenburg’s presses in Mainz, German in the late fifteenth century.
The first books were attempts to replicate the handwritten books of the time, which varied widely. Over the centuries publishers have gradually established conventions about the way books are constructed. A Gutenberg Bible Although type design is often likened to architecture, you could also argue that the construction of a book is in some way architectural. CreateSpace: Self Publishing and Free Distribution for Books, CD, DVD. Top 10 Tips For Self-Publishing Print Books On Createspace. Self-publishing a book: 25 things you need to know. Note to readers: I originally published the article back in 2008 and have updated it a few times, most recently on June 13, 2012.
This article primarily addresses self-publishing a print book, though many of the tips apply to e-books as well. For specific information about publishing an e-book, see my companion article, "How to self-publish an ebook. " I know, I know. This is a column about cutting-edge electronics. So, apologies to gadget-heads as I take a brief sojourn into the land of self-publishing, which has become a lot more high-tech than a lot of people realize. A few years ago I wrote a book. Its short history is this: I worked on it for several years, acquired a high-powered agent, had some brushes with major publishers, then, crickets. I could have tried to go for a small publisher, but I was told mine was "a bigger book" with more commercial aspirations and prestigious small publishers were interested in more literary tomes. 1. Self-publishing a print book is easy. 2. 3. 4. Marketing.
Grammar Girl. Mignon Fogarty is the founder of the Quick and Dirty Tips network and creator of Grammar Girl, which has been named one of Writer's Digest's 101 best websites for writers multiple times. The Grammar Girl podcast has also won Best Education Podcast multiple times in the Podcast Awards, and Mignon is an inductee in the Podcasting Hall of Fame.
Mignon is the author of the New York Times best-seller "Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing" and six other books on writing. She has appeared as a guest on the "Oprah Winfrey Show" and the "Today Show" and has been featured in the New York Times, Business Week, the Washington Post, USA Today, CNN.com, and more. She was previously the chair of media entrepreneurship in the Reynolds School of Journalism in Reno, NV. Belligerent Copywriters Guide. The hyphen (-) is the shortest of the bunch, followed by the en-dash (–) and the nearly irrelevant em-dash (—).
The em-dash is approximately double the length of the en-dash. It’s easy to remember which goes by which name because the character “m” is a doubled version of the character “n”. Hyphen Basics Hyphens are primarily used to form compound words and phrases. If you’re dealing with a compound, you should be hyphenating not employing a dash (there are few exceptions where a dash is technically the correct punctuation to use in a compound; these will be explained in the dash section). Slick Write.