Sentences with phrase «badly designed book»

A well - designed layout is an important aspect to keeping your readers interested - who enjoys reading a badly designed book?

Many self - published authors rely on online sales of both print books and ebooks though, so, okay, a badly designed book might not necessarily put off all prospective buyers.

Not exact matches

They say you shouldn't judge a book by its front cover, but if you front cover is tacky and badly designed, journalists are unlikely to make it any further.

On this episode I welcome my good friend Brian Solis to talk about his new book, X: The Experience When Business Meets Design, and we talk about the auto industry, bad marketing vs. a crappy product and when's the right time to let go.

The spate of bad books on philosophy and religion by prominent scientists — Dawkins» The God Delusion, Hawking and Mlodinow's The Grand Design, and Atkins» On Being, among others — is notable not only for the sophomoric philosophical and theological errors they contain but also for their sheer repetitiveness.

(And if you think Christians have cornered the market on bad design, you should check out the Lousy Book Covers blog, which features bad design from all genres of the publishing industry.)

David Victor, in his recent book, «Global Warming Gridlock» [4], portrays this as one of the worst lessons in designing the Framework Convention that diplomats drew from the Montreal Protocol — the result of a «herd mentality» in the past design of international atmospheric agreements that all followed this same design principle.

Charles Tart, a psychologist at the University of California at Davis, who did the first major study of out - of - body experiences in 1969, and Raymond Moody... designed experiments of questionable rigor and made matters worse by ignoring the peer - review process and publishing their results in best - selling books.»

A Web filled with pages designed by people using Taylor's book and its instructions on using transparent colours, horizontal rules and scanned - in images wouldn't be too bad at all.

I can sheepishly admit that I never really read a lot of the design books I own (so bad, I know).

However, the problem is that the film adheres to the worst parts of the book, namely, its ridiculous premise and sketchy details, building upon a house of cards that could collapse once any amount of pressure is exerted on its flimsy, edgeless design.

Not because the ads were bad or poorly designed, but the brick - and - mortar bookseller audience that reads them are predisposed against self - published books, especially POD like mine, due to the inability to return unsold copies and the inconvenience of dealing with an individual publisher.

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There are a lot of mistaken assumptions about how book covers are supposed to look, and that has led to thousands of badly designed indie published books.

For example: editors that are difficult, fired, laid - off, or retire; title changes or bad book cover design; bad reviews or publicity; poor book sales; changes in the industry or marketplace; etc..

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The independent author sphere is saturated with bad design and marketing — from unintentionally hilarious book covers to websites that look like refugees from the wreckage of Geocities — and you don't want to add to it.

If the publisher's website looks poorly designed, out of date, or amateurish, that's not a great sign — although, to be fair, book publishers are somewhat notorious for having bad websites.

The worst thing your book's interior design can do is distract your readers from reading your work.

If you are looking for some more inspiration for good book design (or even examples of bad book design) you may enjoy looking through our book design tag.

Initially when self - publishing through vanity publishers started becoming popular in the early 2000s, these books had a bad reputation due to the other reasons in this article, but primarily due to poor cover design.

Authors are often the worst people to know what will make the cover design effective for their books.

Although there are no golden rules that says you must follow a formal book structure, a sloppy (amateur) book design will reflect poorly on you, as a self published author (and could really have a bad effect on reviews of your book, which can lead to poor word - of - mouth).

Sidenote — a positive word about the Kindle: As I've written before, I have one and despite its god - awful hardware design and some of the most incredibly bad user - interface ideas I've ever witnessed (see earlier review), I like the convenience of having dozens of books in my briefcase and I especially like the think - it, buy - it instant - shopification features it offers with an EVDO - powered access to the Amazon store.

I came across an example of a bad web design choice this morning while scanning the news online (which is the first of my book promotion tasks every day as I seek ways to tie clients» books and expertise into what's happening in the world).

Sometimes book bloggers have outdated, spammy sites with bad design.

This, I can tell you, however: I will bring out ebooks with what book designers will call bad design, which will outsell over 90 percent of the «professionally» designed ebooks.

To make matters worse, Amazon's free resources — the KDP help pages (https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help), Building Your Book for Kindle (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007URVZJ6), and Publish on Amazon Kindle with Kindle Direct Publishing (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004LX069M)-- are largely geared toward the basic use of Word to prepare an eBook, while not revealing the subtleties entailed in achieving a professional design.

Here are some design slip - ups that could signal a bad designer and cost you in book sales!

Many p - books contain far more serious bad design choices.

The price of the Porsche Design Book One actually isn't that bad considering the specs, with a US price of $ 2495, and $ 2795 in Germany.

In short, getting a publisher or a publishing deal is often not a great idea, because most small presses won't market you or might even screw up basic things like cover design, and you'll have less control to make smart marketing decisions so your book may perform worse.

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The worst part is we spend years honing our book's content to what we consider perfection, or as close to it as we can get, but too many of us refuse to spend as little as $ 200.00 on a professional cover design?

I have no idea about indie authors, but most authors are their own worst enemies when it comes to designing their books.

In other words: it's really bad if you design a book application specifically for the iPad and the moment one opens it the cover does not perfectly fit the screen.

If the type is too small to be read by the book's audience, it's not visually clear what the levels of heading are, or the text is crawling into the gutter, the book is badly designed.

And the real danger (for me at least) is that all my cover designs are pretty good, so if the client chooses one and his team likes it (but recommends some big changes like «make the text bigger and darker and bolder») everybody will be pretty happy — except me, because my really brilliant work won't get seen, and the author won't sell as many books (two things that are bad for my business).

In the old days, vanity houses were the only self - publishing option and most self - pubbed books were badly designed and poorly produced, Today authors can produce high quality books using any of these methods — and some authors combine methods, based on a specific project or need.

This mistake leads to big problems: a book with gaping holes and humiliating errors, a shallow and ineffective marketing plan, a bad first impression due to an amateurish cover design, launch delays, and more.

It sounds like the final product may be a bit more artwork intensive than information heavy, but given the beauty of Nintendo's design - and the undeniable appeal of a coffee table book - that might not be a bad thing at all.

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