Format YOUR Print Book with Createspace
Format YOUR Print Book with Createspace by Tim C. Taylor is a comprehensive guide published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform on November 18, 2013. This 296-page book is written in English and focuses on the essential skills needed for formatting a print book using Createspace or Lulu. It provides detailed instructions on book layout and typesetting, ensuring that writers can achieve professional results in their manuscripts.
Readers will find practical advice on using Microsoft Word across various versions, along with tips for transitioning between print and eBook formats. The second edition includes new workflows for publishing through Createspace, answers to common questions about paperback publishing, and advanced topics such as kerning and color spaces. With numerous screenshots and diagrams, this edition aims to enhance the reader’s understanding of the publishing process while addressing specific challenges faced by authors.
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2nd Edition: EXTENDED! REVISED! UPDATED!
Publishing a print book with Createspace or Lulu is fairly easy. But unless you know how to lay out a book, AND how to achieve the results you want in your word processor, the result won’t do your writing justice. In this guide, I will show you how to format your book’s interior:
* What you need to know about book layout and typesetting to get professional results.
* How to use Microsoft Word 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 & 2013 to achieve those results (with notes for Word 2003 users)
* eBook tips: how to format your manuscript in Word so you can move easily between print, Kindle, ePUB, and Smashwords editions. (Note: this is not a comprehensive guide to building eBooks).
*NEW! A workflow for publishing a book through Createspace. Follow the workflow and use the cross-references to find the detailed discussion later in the book for each step.
*NEW! Answers to the questions about paperback publishing that I am often asked by my book-formatting clients, such as: how to pick the right trim size, how to set pricing, what kind of ISBN you should use, and how to link print and kindle editions on Amazon.
*NEW! The correct way to use paragraph and page breaks in Word.
*NEW! Advanced topics: add that final level of polish with subjects such as kerning & OpenType settings, using Unicode code points in paperbacks and eBooks, dot gain & color spaces, faux glyphs and how to avoid them, the perils of transferring Word files between Mac & Windows, and how to republish your back catalog.
*NEW! Many more screenshots and diagrams (now 76). All are reproduced in the paperback and eBook editions of this book, and are also available from the book’s website.
A note for Mac users. Screenshots are taken from Windows editions of Word, and references made to any significant Mac differences (specifically: keyboard shortcut differences, selecting fonts, and the PDF print capability built into OS X). While I have worked with Mac users to research the second edition, in the interest of honesty I declare that although I have laid out dozens of paperback books using Windows editions of Word, I have not produced any using a Mac. Hence there is a Windows-first bias to the text and images.
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