Book Design Made Simple

Book Design Made Simple is the only comprehensive resource for designing and typesetting your own book using Adobe InDesign. It’ll teach you everything you need to know, from deciding on a size for your book to finding the best look for it, creating a page design and a cover, typesetting it, and sending the properly formatted files to the printer. You can do it! We’ve laid out each part of the process in logical steps for the new designer and typesetter. Some topics take a dozen pages to explain, and some take only one or two. There’s no need to read the entire book—simply use the sections that’ll help you design your book and skip the rest. Fiona Raven and Glenna Collett are book designers with a combined 60+ years of experience. After collaborating on designing books for self-publishing authors, they joined forces to write Book Design Made Simple, a 500-page comprehensive guide to designing and typesetting books for non-designers and designers alike. Book Design Made Simple. You can do it yourself.