Sentences with phrase «small book covers»

It makes it difficult to keep tabs on those expanding digital libraries: at best, we can see a dozen titles at a time, all as inscrutably small book covers.

Not exact matches

Theists think they already have all the answers in their 2,000 year old book written via hearsay from a couple dozen different people covering a span of time of something like 5,000 years and conveniently geographically focused on one very small area of the Earth.

The other day in class, I covered Ben Franklin's Autobiography and his self - improvement program, which included reading lots of books — no small charge for a poor apprentice printer.

Other than the comfort items, it's also a good idea to bring a small amount of compact toys and cloth cover books.

While small children should not be exposed to computers for more than a few minutes at a time, and should be encouraged instead to find information in books, a child of nine or ten needs to become familiar with web searching as he begins to research subjects or topics that interest him, and which may not be covered in easily available books.

Every book worm out there began as a small child, gleefully devouring their favorite stories — first from adults reading to them aloud to then by flashlight, tucked under the covers, knees propped up...

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During the course of the past few years I had come across a book entitled «The Obesity Code» by Jason Fung, M.D. I had only read a small portion of it, but decided I would actually read it cover to cover.

In no small part because that's what you folks tell me interests you, and because the questions you have are typically very specific and include topics not covered by style books and magazines.

Can't say I loved it by hey turning a book into a movie is no easy task especially when there's so many small details to cover.

Small, hard covered books with blank pages.

There is never in doubt about who are the truly dangerous people in the film, signalled in comic book - like terms by the bad guys being caked in dirt, whether it is Gale (John Goodman) and Evelle (William Forsythe), two criminal acquaintances of H.I. who escape from prison in a rainstorm and emerge from the ground covered in mud, or the shotgun - blasting, baby - hunting biker Leonard Smalls (Randall «Tex» Cobb), a lawless wanderer emerging through hellish flames with a pair of baby shoes attached to his belt that jingle like cowboy boot spurs.

Drawing from over 100 interviews, the book covers the development story of 10 different games ranging from big to small, shooter to strategy.

The book met with both much acclaim and no small amount of controversy, due to its assertions that former rap mogul Suge Knight had been behind the murders of both men, and that members of the LAPD had helped to cover up the truth.

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«Inspiration,» «heart,» «democracy,» «models for national education reform»... so advertise the covers of four books from the series on small schools by Teachers College Press.

Some teachers have creatively used them as covers for small books.

In fact a small part of me wonders if that image being planted in more brains could potentially cause people to take a second look at my book cover, subconsciously thinking where have I seen this before?

The odds of this happening increases if you go with a smaller press or publishing house — I cringe at the book covers some «publishers» are putting out.

Independent presses are small presses that publish STRANGERS» books because they fall in love with the books, and they work very hard to scrape together funds for advances, contracts, editors, layout, cover artists, advertising, and print runs.

If you go to Amazon and do a search for your book, there is a small box underneath the picture of the books cover.

A small sized book cover of 5 «x7» will give you a plaque sized 8 «x12».

Also remember that the cover needs to pop even as a small thumbnail because that's how it will appear on most social media sites and online book stores.

That means you have to create a book cover and text format that translate to the small screen.

The women who owned the store read each book and had a small pencil written review inside the cover.

(We are not covering here the many small value adds that can be bundled with ebooks, such as video interviews with the author, alternative versions, extra text, or trailers for other books.

If you are serious about reaching a broad audience, you can earn $ 6 to $ 9 per book ordered at live events or your own Web site, instead of a small percentage of cover price.

My novel The Rescuer's Path came out this January, with glowing cover comments from Ursula Le Guin («exciting, physically vivid, and romantic»), Cheryl Strayed («held me from the first page to the end»), and many other noted authors whose opinions, one would think, would count with the media; yet, except a notice in Small Press Review («lyrical and poetic, the characters vividly drawn, the story captivating») and elsewhere, and mostly 5 - star Amazon reviews, media critics and bookstores will not so much as open the book.

No, not as in they have cover, pages, copyright info, table of contents, but if you borrowed someone else's e-reader and compared your book to a Big 5 or small press book, does yours scream «Hi, I'm a bad Word to HTML conversion?»

For ebooks and print books, it's also worth remembering that anyone buying online may first see your book cover as a small thumbnail image.

Digital Book Designs Ken Small Specializes in book cover design and interior layBook Designs Ken Small Specializes in book cover design and interior laybook cover design and interior layout.

Part of the stigma grew from the fact that vanity - published books were not vetted by the gatekeepers at a publishing house — whether large or small — and therefore did not benefit from editing, professional cover design, typesetting, and marketing.

A title - forward book cover has some advantages: it could be inexpensive to design, it stands out, and it's easy to read even when the cover art is made smaller on computer screens and phones.

I make SO much more money as an indie author, and sales of my self - pubbed version of the book that small press put out are much bigger because I sell at a more attractive price (2.99 compared to 5.50) and I have a better cover (a fun, custom illustration depicting my exact characters rather than a $ 10 stock photo image.)

Many small traditional publishers are open to new writers, accept unagented submissions, create attractive book covers, market the books they publish, and pay real royalties... without charging authors anything.

Design book covers to look good at a small size for book retailer websites and tiny mobile device screens.

Our art director and lead designer has created book cover designs for New York houses like Tor and Doubleday, small specialty presses, like Donald M. Grant, Pink Narcissus, and Necon Ebooks, and for many individually self - published authors.

CD: You've worked on book covers for the majors, and for small presses, you've created movie posters and theater ads, comics and graphic novels, sculptures, masks, and more.

Small gift with your logo, book cover or branding on it.

How many times recently have I seen writers desperate to sell their wares, spend money time and effort to change a cover for instance and to produce actual paperback copies, which they then hawk around the many small time book fairs, largely at their own expense?

Of all the books I've reviewed, I've only given an unqualified recommendation to books published by a small press, which had obviously received the attention of an editor, a copyeditor, a designer, and a cover artist.

However, almost all the indie authors I know are doing a firmly mediocre job, with not - great book covers and abstract titles that don't mean anything — and then they also don't add any small text.

I could pull samples from the 25 top small presses and publishers, showing off their ugly cover designs, to demonstrate what a poor choice these options are to authors (since the cover will be the biggest factor in your book's success, and small presses or services that charge a publishing fee skimp on quality design to make more money for themselves).

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Formatting, proofreading, editing, cover designs, beta reading, marketing, and publishing are all small but valuable investments in your book earning you royalties and readers.

The small dimension (width) of your cover should be at least 1400 pixels, which sounds like overkill given that your book cover will almost always be displayed either as a thumbnail or at about 400 - 800 pixels when viewing the ebook on a reading device, but I guess we need to prepare for that one in a million ebook aficionado who insists ebooks are best read on a plasma television screen.

Each book cover design is unique and only for sale to one person or small publisher.

His books share what Powers refers to as «a restlessness in theme», covering a multitude of areas but usually, if not always, exploring the effects of modern science and technology that, in Powers's words give an «an aerial view» - portraying humanity as just one small element in a complex universe.

When you open a book it plays another small animation of the cover art that starts off small and then takes up the whole screen.