Copyright free images, sounds & music. Booktype. About BookRix. BookRix is a free self publishing platform that offers eBook distribution services to independent writers. Our users can share their writing, connect with other readers and discover new stories and authors – all in one place. Upon registration, a new account profile will be created for you. Your personal profile can be customized to your liking and is equipped with all the tools you will need to create your own eBooks, list your favorite literature, promote yourself as an author and publish your work to major online shops. Technology is constantly in motion.
Over the years it has changed the way we play our music, watch movies and discover new content. BookRix was the first book community to give their writers a platform to promote and sell their work on the web as a published eBook. BookRix is free - plain and simple. . - Publish your eBooks and take pride in your accomplishment - Distribute and sell your eBook on major online shops and earn money. ColoRotate: Colors come to life in 3D. You CAN design your own book cover (well, maybe): Here’s how. Posted on Oct 11, 2011 | 13 comments I’m pretty proud of myself. I tend to be cheap and only pay for something I can’t do myself, so when I do I expect quality. I mean, I wax my own eyebrows because I’m too cheap to pay anyone else to do it, so why not create my book cover? Well, I’ve learned that there are some things I can do, and some things I just can’t. For my upcoming serial novel Two Moons of Sera (coming November 1!)
In order to make your own cover there are a few things you must have: A photo editing program that can utilize layers (if you don’t know what layers are, skip ahead to the “find a designer” section).Legal rights to ALL of the images you intend to use.A tech-savvy self-taught attitude. Let’s go through these a little slower. This is an important point. You may not – I repeat – you MAY NOT use any picture you find on the internet for your book cover. Designing a book cover is an investment. If you answered yes then you are ready to go. Top 10 Best Resource Guides for e-Book Authors. The new world of e-book publishing promises almost-instant gratification at virtually no cost. It seems that authors with a manuscript in hand can glide nonstop to great sales, wealth and fame, probably before lunch.
At least that’s the way it seems sometimes. Unfortunately it can be tedious searching for the resources you need when you decide to publish your book as an e-book. I’ve been researching for my series of reviews of e-reader apps. As usual, I’m gathering links and resources as I go, keeping in mind this very task. I assemble lists of links in Evernote, one of my favorite tools for research. So far, these are the best resources for e-book authors I’ve come across. To save you the time of looking up all these resources, just bookmark this page and you’ll be able to come back to it when you’re ready. Ed: I’d like to keep growing this list and updating it. More Free Resources Formatting for Kindle, Guido Henkel’s 9 helpful blog entries. Ebookninjas.com weekly e-book podcast. Book Design Basics - Dashes, Hyphens and Dots. I particularly like this section on dashes, hyphens and dots because it goes beyond typographic aesthetics to explore how we can communicate more effectively as writers.
The subtle intricacies of hyphens and dashes affect all authors whether they typeset their own books or not. Knowing how to punctuate correctly empowers you to control emphasis and handle challenging sentences that contain parenthetical asides, omissions or incomplete thoughts. Here, good typography is an extension of good writing. Many writers are unaware that the simple dash comes in several flavors.
Because dashes are often used as alternatives for other types of punctuation, they are explained here in context with the marks they substitute for. Book Design Tip: The Hyphen Dash The hyphen dash is used to split words across a line break or to join two words into one. The waves glowed blue-green in the tropical sun. Book Design Tip: The En-Dash. Book Design Basics Part 2: Optical Margins, Indents and Periods. Part 2 of Fundamentals of Book Design explores optical margins, paragraph formatting and spaces. Read about margins, layout and leading in Part 1. The self-publishing revolution is (aside from the Internet) the greatest thing ever to happen to freedom of speech and expression, but self-published books are widely stigmatized as poorly produced.
Why? Because they almost universally are. After all those hours writing and editing, why not produce a book that conveys your good taste, attention to detail and care? Book Design Tip: Optical Margins Optical margins are one thing you won’t get your word processor to do, but with a dedicated typesetting program like Adobe InDesign, you can improve the look of your book design with a simple but underused feature. Let’s look at an ordinary block of text (from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens). Notice how all the punctuation stays strictly within the boundaries of the text box. Ever! 1. Book Design Basics Part 1: Margins and Leading. Book design is a lost art. Though book design discussions usually focus on covers, consider how much more time a reader spends staring at the text. An elegant book block is just as important.
Decades ago, professional tradesmen practiced the fine art of typesetting. Today, book design is often executed (pun intended) by amateurs. As easy as it is to set type, many fine points of typography are commonly overlooked. Fortunately, for the design-aware, digital tools like Adobe InDesign make it possible to produce pages that aspire to the old standards of hot metal type. Sacrificing comfortable margins is unfortunately a good business decision, even if it’s a bad design decision. Fortunately, self-publishers don’t have this problem because print-on-demand (POD) allows for the production of one book at a time. Book Design Tip: Margins Line Width is another important book design consideration. The J.A. Drawing tool - DrawIsland.
Book Design Basics Part 1: Margins and Leading.