Not exact matches
It should
look like any other book
on a
bookstore shelf, yet many self - published authors make the mistake of cutting corners and skipping over critical steps in the publishing process.
Therin is professional to work with and my books
look great - very high quality and professional
looking even nicer than some of the books you might find published
on the
bookstore shelves!»
Once you are satisfied that this book
looks like what you want
on bookstore shelves and other readers are used to seeing... go ahead and pick your book's birthday (also known as a publication date) and celebrate.
You will learn not the hows and the whys involved in designing professional book covers that
look great
on any
shelf — at home or at the
bookstore — and in the iBook and Kindle stores.
Look, these fees, sales deals, and low quantities at
bookstores will not have you light cigars with hundred dollar bills, and they are very labor intensive, but catering to brick and mortar stores is something an Indie Author should do for several reasons — to build some local cache, get more experience pitching his or her art, and garnering that genuinely terrific feeling of seeing your work
on the
shelf of a reputable
bookstore.
That doesn't mean the author's or publisher's books will sit
on the
shelf of most (or even a few) bricks - and - mortar
bookstores in the country — just that the book can
look and appear like any other when viewed in an industry database.
You know when you walk into a
bookstore or Barnes and Noble, and all the books
on the
shelf are the same size, and it
looks really, really nice.
My objectives included learning how to use InDesign to create a professional
looking product, one that would
look as good as any other book
on the
bookstore shelf.
Robin Cutler [00:05:54] I tell authors when they're thinking, even before they finish writing their book they should think about where it would be placed
on a
shelf in a
bookstore or in a library, and really go and
look at those books like where exactly you think your book would be
shelved.
More importantly, as authors and publisher
look for ever more creative ways to attract the attention of readers who already have large amounts of content to choose from, books are going to have to have a way to stand out from the crowd
on the
bookstore shelves.
All anyone needs to do is
look at an agent's clients and the books
on the
bookstore shelves to sense quality.
I love going to the
bookstore and
looking at the books
on the
shelves.
If I'd been in a
bookstore, Deighton wouldn't have had a
look in, firstly because he would be unlikely to have any
shelf space (despite a recent reissuing of the texts with damn fine covers), at best maybe a spine out copy or two and secondly because other, newer titles would have been calling out for my attention
on tables and in 342 offers.