Book Design Made Simple

You can do it yourself.

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Contents

Book Design Made Simple includes 73 chapters plus a glossary of design and printing terms and a comprehensive index. And we’ve added more than 400 images to make the steps you’ll take easy to master.

Book Design Made Simple, Second EditionPart I: Getting Started
1 From Word to InDesign 1
2 Windows versus Mac 4
3 Leasing InDesign 5
4 A quick tour of InDesign 12
5 Choosing your trim size 20
6 Planning your pages 23
7 Creating your document 28
8 Placing your manuscript 44
9 Optimizing your text 50

Part II: Creating Your Styles
10 Creating your paragraph styles  56
11 Creating your character styles  80
12 Reversing or undoing mistakes 86

Part III: Formatting Your Pages
13 Applying your character styles  88
14 Formatting your pages 94
15 Adding folios and running heads 110
16 Printing pages 113

Part IV: Designing Your Pages
17 Changing your page design 118
18 Using master pages 119
19 Changing your trim size 121
20 Changing your margins 123
21 Changing your main typeface 129
22 Setting type size and leading 135
23 Setting up your baseline grid 138
24 Designing chapter and part openings 142
25 Designing headings 184
26 Desiging other elements 194
27 Designing folios and running heads 218
28 Designing your front matter 222
29 Designing your back matter 246

Part V: Adding Shapes & Color
30 Working with shapes 256
31 Working with color 257
32 Using Layers for shapes 264
33 Using the Shape Tools 266
34 Using the Drawing Tools 268
35 Using the Stroke panel 272
36 Putting objects into groups 274
37 Adding a document bleed 275
38 Using object styles  276
39 Using a library  278

Part VI: Adding Images
40 Preparing to add images 282
41 Getting permission to use images  283
42 Organizing your images  285
43 Placing and positioning images 287
44 Adding captions and text wraps  294
45 Packaging your book 300
46 Optimizing your images 301

Part VII: Typesetting
47 Planning your final pass 320
48 Page count for offset printing 321
49 Adding, deleting, and moving text, pages, and styles 327
50 Typesetting tips and tricks 336
51 Improving your page layout 356
52 Creating and applying chapter master pages 362
53 Final proofreading corrections 366
54 Adding your index 368

Part VIII: Designing Your Cover
55 Researching your target market 376
56 Starting your front cover design  379
57 A few design principles 389
58 Creating a color palette 394
59 Polishing your front cover 397
60 Choosing your book’s binding  407
61 Using a printer’s cover template 411
62 Creating your own cover template 413
63 Planning your back cover 422
64 Designing your back cover  425
65 Designing your spine 437
66 Designing extras for hardcovers  441
67 Printing color cover proofs  444

Part IX: Preparing to Publish
68 Obtaining and assigning ISBNs 446
69 Setting your book’s retail price 450
70 Obtaining a bar code 451
71 Packaging for your printer 452
72 Uploading to your printer 461
73 EBook editions: EPUB and MOBI  463

References
Glossary  471
Keyboard shortcuts  477
The self-publishing process  478
Bibliography  480
Index  481
About the authors  499

A Note about ebooks:

Book Design Made Simple covers all the ins and outs of preparing books for printing. We also give pointers on how to think ahead for ebook conversion. We do not, however, tell you how to produce an ebook yourself as there are lots of excellent books already written on this subject.

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