PUBLISHING BOOKS
YOU CAN CONSIDER PUBLISHING BOOKS TOO
Book
publishing may appear to be beyond your capabilities, but if you can publish a
community magazine incorporating the type of content I recommend throughout
this website, then there is absolutely no reason why you cannot also
publish books.
Publishing
a book follows the very same procedures we have mentioned so far and if
you have decided to publish a community magazine incorporating personal
memories and recollections then you have a sound basis for content for
your book.
Back
in March 2006, I was contacted by a gentleman in Knottingley who asked
if I thought his memories of the town would be of interest to readers of
my magazine. I assured him they would be and arranged to visit
him.
Within
a few weeks it became obvious that not only was his story of great
interest, but that there was also going to be sufficient material to
compile in book form. I decided that I would use his story to
publish my first book.
Using
Quark, the same program I now use to compile my magazines, I set a book
size of A5 and laid out the pages, copying and pasting across from
Word. I looked through the various books to be found around my
home for the various methods of setting out the contents and used those
I found most pleasing.
A
full-color book cover was designed using an image of an area of town
where the gentleman was born as a background, and incorporated a
photograph of the gentleman on the cover along with the book title.
I
visited my local printer and decided on a full-colour laminated cover,
perfect bound. Delivery time for my published books was stated to
be two weeks.
Even if
you have only a small amount of experience of magazine publishing then you have
everything you need to also publish books, and with the type of content
I recommend you to use in your magazine you will have sufficiently
interesting, and a ready supply of material to use as the basis of
several books.
Book
publishing is as easy as publishing a community magazine and depending
on your ambitions, obtaining ISBN registration is also a simple matter,
costing less than £100 for a series of ten ISBN numbers for your use.
I
wholeheartedly recommend you to consider publishing books as well as
magazines and if you follow my suggestions for content, you have a great
basis from which to begin book publishing.
Michael Norfolk
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