SELF-PUBLISHING Workshop Seminar
offered by The Invisible Cities Network
This 7-hour workshop is designed for all those wishing to gain skills and knowledge of the publishing process.
OBJECTIVES
- Network with colleagues
- Formulate a clear idea of one's personal book format
- Gain a basic understanding of the technical requirements and bureaucratic procedures involved in book production
- Book Genre: initial concept and preparation
- Identity, trade logos
- Industry standard (DTP) Desk Top Publishing software
- Principles of cover, page and book design, thumbnail sketches
- Size, type, quality of paper
- How to handle illustrations, photographs, etc.
- Methods of book binding,
- Finding a suitable printer
- Typical print runs, composing printer specifications, dealing with printers
- Typical price schedules for standard book formats
- Pitfalls of the printing process
- Audiotape and CD production, audiobooks
- Acquisition of ISBNs and Barcodes
- Copyright issues
- Official book title registration,
- Cataloguing in Publication Data,
- Legal Deposit requirements
- Advance information sheets and press releases
- Personal or commercial distribution
- Getting your book into the bookshops
- Book launches