August 17th, 2010
There are a few key steps that all self publishers must follow when preparing new material for the marketplace. One of these key steps is acquiring an ISBN number. An ISBN number is a unique identifier to your book. Online stores such as Borders, Barnes & Noble and Amazon will need this number to catalog and inventory your book. You may also want to consider purchasing your barcode at the same time as your ISBN number. Whether you plan to sell your book on an online store or in a brick-and-mortar storefront, you’ll need an ISBN number to move forward.
In the United States, there is a single agency in control of issuing all ISBN numbers. You can find out more about them here. Once you have your ISBN and barcode, all you have to do is submit it to us along with your artwork, and you’ll be one step closer to publication!
April 22nd, 2010
At home you may find ways to protect the environment by recycling, conserving energy and choosing fuel-efficient cars. But what can you do at office? Through our hectic work days it may not be at the forefront of our thoughts. How about choosing a copy paper that is highly sustainable, chlorine free, and is tree free. Treefrog is a new line of paper that is made of 70% sugar cane and 30% bamboo. Bamboo and sugar cane can be harvested in a fraction of the time of trees. Preserving our forests protects our trees, wildlife, air quality and ozone layer depletion.
Click here to learn more about Treefrog paper as well as reference the attached PDF. If you would like additional information regarding this product and pricing feel free to call Valerie at 888.664.8166.
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February 15th, 2010
Front matter is the term used for the information and pages that proceed the body text of a book. This material begins as the first printed page and ends before chapter one. There is far more detailed information about front matter available and should be searched out when creating your book layout. Below are listed the more common elements that we see in the books that we produce. They are listed in the order in which they should appear in the layout and unless noted otherwise, all elements begin on a right side page.
Half Title Page - This is a page with the title of the book and nothing else.
Frontispiece - A left page illustration that precedes (faces) the title page. Not very common but is still used from time to time.
Title Page - Includes the full book title, subtitle and author and can include the editor, illustrator, publisher and so on.
Edition Notice - A left page, sometimes called the copyright page. This page contains technical and legal information about the book including; copyright notice, legal notices, publication info, printing history, catalog information and ISBN number.
Dedication Page
Table of Contents
Foreword - Written by someone besides the author of the book. Generally about a relationship between the author of the book and the author of the foreword.
Preface or Introduction - An introduction of the book written by the book’s author.
Acknowledgements - A list of those that helped the author in the creation of the book through editorial, financial, moral or technical support.
Prologue - Similar to a preface but written by the author in the voice of a character in the book.
January 5th, 2010
If you are reading this on the BestBookPrinting.com, then you are seeing an example of a blog in action. A blog (web log) is nothing more than a growing repository of ideas, thoughts and information as presented in a website. Most blogs share a general format organized by topic and chronology. Subject matter is unlimited and many use blogs as a means to share their life and their thoughts with friends, family and the world.
There are bloggers that have found a fair amount of popularity with their work and many would hope to turn this popularity into some form of income. Some sell advertising on their sites and others sell subscriptions. Then there are the enterprising souls that have turned their blog into a printed, self published book. Enter the Blook.
Until recently, the only way to create a book from the contents of your blog was to painstakingly copy the text and place it into page layout software that would allow you to format the contents and add the necessary titles, page numbers, chapter starts, table of contents and so on. Currently there is no commercial application that will automatically transform your blog site into a workable, commercially printed format. Yet.
However, for those of us with some amount of web skills, it is possible to create a website using HTML and CSS in such a way that book layout can be automated with the end result being print ready PDFs. The process is demonstrated in this article.
As it always happens with technology, if there is a clamor for something new, it won’t be long before someone comes up with a good solution – or twenty. So for those of you with the web skills to use the home grown approach shown with CSS: Boom!, go for it. For the rest of us, let’s make some noise so that someone will come up with a great way to transform your blog into a book.
October 13th, 2009
Our site is built around our instant book quote application that was designed to deliver a price estimate on what we have found to be the most commonly used options. Our primary goal was to make the quote form as easy to use as possible. In doing so it was necessary to reduce the number of available options in most categories, but only for the instant online quote.
Beyond bestbookprinting.com, Colorwise Printing is a full service commercial printer that is able to provide a custom quote and accommodate your unique production requirements.
If your book’s specification fall outside of the options that you find online, we encourage you to still use the site for ballpark estimating. Once you have a good idea of your requirements, don’t hesitate to contact us directly to request your custom quote.
