INDIE PUBLISHING: HOW TO DESIGNAND PRODUCE YPUR OWN BOOK

Once referred to derisively as "vanity publishing," self-published booksare finally taking their place alongside more accepted indie categoriessuch as music, film, and theater. Indie Publishing is a practical guide tocreating and distributing printed books regardless of your background,skill set, or ambition. It will help you realize projects of every scaleand budget, from the traditional bookmaking techniques used to create zinesto the more ambitious industrial production methods required to producehardcover books in large quantity.Indie Publishing's special focus on the visual design of books makes itunique among publish-it-yourself manuals. Readers are taken step-by-stepthrough the process of designing a book to give it personal style as wellas visual coherence and authority. Design principles such as scale,cropping, pacing, and typography are explored in relation to each example,along with commentary on how to create effective title pages, tables ofcontents, captions, and more. Indie Publishing aims to inspire readers withexamples of print projects similar to those they might undertake on theirown. Sample designs include a picture book, artist's portfolio, exhibitioncatalog, poetry chapbook, novel, and zine. Indie Publishing addresses theimportant business aspects of independent publishing—from how and whyyou should get an isbn number to creating promotional materials and usingthe Internet to market your book. This comprehensive, illustrated guideconcludes with a curated portfolio of the most exciting examples ofindependent publishing from the contemporary scene, reproduced in fullcolor. If you have content to share and you want to give it a fresh andorderly form, this book will kick-start your project and keep you motivateduntil the ink dries. Indie Publishing is the eighth title in ourbest-selling Design Briefs series, which has sold more than 100,000 copiesworldwide.