What Is Bleed in Printing: How to Print a Perfect Book!
A detailed guide to full bleed printing with an explanation of crop marks, safety zone, margins and trim size with correct and incorrect full bleed examples.
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What Are the Best Print on Demand Book Services?
A guide to the best book printing services for print on demand books, including the pros and cons of Amazon print on demand, IngramSpark, Blurb, BookBaby, & Lulu xPress.
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How The Book Gutter Impacts Book Layout and Illustrations
Understanding the book gutter, including how page margins and book binding impact legibility of text and how the book gutter factors into picture book layout.
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What Is a Colophon and How they Impact Design and Marketing
A colophon is a logo that is usually printed on both a book's title page and spine so that reader can recognize a brand while searching bookshelves.
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Publish an eBook to Drive Book Reviews and Book Sales
When it comes to publishing a book—especially a picture book—just how important is it to have an eBook? It turns out, it’s really important!
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What Is a Dust Jacket and Does a Hardcover Book Need One?
When it comes to children's book publishing, there are a lot of decisions to make. Not the least of which is whether print a children's book with a dust jacket. So, what are the benefits of a book jacket. What are the drawbacks. And at the end of the day, is a book jacket worth having? Ultimately, o
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Children's Book Printers: The Children's Book Printing Bible
The essential guide to hardcover children's book printing, offset book printing and a vetted list of children's book printers for hardcover book printing.
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How to Master Self-Publishing a Children's Book in 10 Steps
This step-by-step guide will teach you how to self-publish a children's book. Features the 10 elements of self-publishing, and includes a printable checklist.
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Hardcover Book End Sheets and How End Pages Impact Book Layout
Book end sheets, or book endpapers, are the end pages that hold the cover of a hardcover book to the interior pages. They are the first thing a reader sees when they open a book cover and can add an extra level of luxuriousness to a book. But what are book end pages, and when it comes to adding them
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What is CIP Data, P-CIP Data, And How to Get P-CIP Data?
Learn what CIP data is and follow this step by step guide to get a book into a library by getting a Preassigned Control Number (PCN) and P-CIP data.
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