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Self Publishing Basics: How to Read an ISBN

Some years ago I published a book that landed on the front page of the Sunday New York Times Book Review, which was quite a thrill for my wife and I, who were running our publishing company from a...

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Deconstructing Bembo: Typographic Beauty and Bloody Murder

Even the prosaic act of flipping open the pages of a book can sink us into the accumulated history of western culture. Typefaces like Bembo are unique repositories of much of this history, encoded with...

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Self-Published Design Review: Prelude to a Super Airplane by Brian Spaeth

Well, it didn't take long to get a submission. Brian Spaeth has gamely submitted his self-published book for a Design Review. I've attached his PDF including the front cover and first 58 pages so if...

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Self-Published Design Review: Waiting for Spring by R.J. Keller

Our next book up for a Design Review is Waiting for Spring by R.J. Keller. Originally published in 2007, R.J. said in her email, "My book has been for sale for over a year. It's printed by...

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Self-Published Design Review:Jillian’s Gold by Levi Montgomery

Review by Joel Friedlander, TheBookDesigner.com Our next book for review is Jillian's Gold by Levi Montgomery. (5.5" x 8.5", 422 pages, ISBN 978-1448635535, CreateSpace.) Levi tells me in his email...

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Self-Published Design Review: Stay by Moriah Jovan

Review by Joel Friedlander, TheBookDesigner.com Our next book for review is Stay by Moriah Jovan. (6″ x 9″, 332 pages, softbound, ISBN 978-0981769639, B10 Mediaworx.) This is the second book in a...

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Self-Published Design Review: The Fiddler’s Gun by A.S. Peterson

Our next book for review is the historical novel The Fiddler's Gun by A.S. Peterson. This novel is set during the American revolutionary war. Arthur Peterson said in his email to me that "I have not...

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Self-Publishing Design Review: Stories from the Asphalt by John Sparger

Stories from the Asphalt is one of the more interesting self-published books I've seen in recent months. The cover alone sets it apart, with its spectacular illustration and clean, no nonsense...

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