
I found BookWright easy to use and help videos are available at Blurb. I think Publisher offers stronger formatting/style options and Blurb provides the necessary book specifications. On this occasion I used BookWright but next time I intend to use MS Publisher.
Each program has its strengths and weaknesses. In a previous life, I used Microsoft Publisher to prepare tenders and BookWright is very similar. The Blurb process Book preparationīlurb provides a downloadable program called “BookWright” to prepare your book. Thankfully, because standard colour is twice the price. We didn’t know whether to select economy or standard colour for our Trade Book and these samples showed us that the economy colour was fine for our book. online selling and payment infrastructure (this is often undervalued or taken for granted)Ī very helpful resource is their Swatch Kit (US$7.95) providing samples of the various paper and colour printing options for the various books.
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online and offline book preparation software. a competitive on price for our type of book and chosen format. a range of formats we chose the Trade Book format. It is early days yet, but so far, my impressions are that Blurb offers: In February, I went to a self-publishing event in Brisbane (see My self-publishing ideas for 2017) where I mentioned my print problem to Joanna Penn and she said – “Try Blurb”. I didn’t feel they could meet our five criteria. Despite my hesitancy to date, I have looked at the providers over time and haven’t warmed to any of them. To be fair, I didn’t really survey the providers in any depth. Surely, that isn’t too much to ask? Looking at the providers to access a selling and payment infrastructure and. to print a mixture of text and colour photos (predominately text). to print small numbers (single) of books (so print-on-demand). We have five basic requirements for our printed travel books: Why Blurb? Our printed travel book requirements So, it is now time to embrace the printed world and publish our first printed travel book. Only now, after working on the publication of our Prague eBook did I suddenly feel, I could “bite-the-bullet” so to speak and print my photos. Improving my photography is another never-ending challenge. However, we’ve reached as point where we are about to embark on a new approach! But, this will be gradual and extend from our current method. To continually improve the quality of our eBooks is an ongoing challenge. These books range from 10,000 – 15,000 words and contain between 10 and 35 photographs. Our travel books are based on our travels to various regions and cities. Why has it taken so long to achieve our printed travel book? This post seeks to answer these questions. The good news is that we have achieved this goal with the availability of our first printed travel book Six Days in Prague published on Blurb on the.
To self-publish our first printed travel book has been a key goal, ever since we started self-publishing our travel eBooks (five years ago). The story of our first printed travel book Introduction
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