SELF-PUBLISHING Workshop Seminar offered by
The Invisible Cities Group
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
VENUE
1192 Egan Street, Verdun, H4H 1W7. Metro Jolicoeur, Bus 37, Direction Vendome (two stops) Bus 112, Direction Airlie (three stops).
FEE: $75.00 (lunch and 82-page workbook included) Maximum: 5 participants each session
- 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
NEXT SELF-PUBLISHING WORKSHOP
Saturday, September 24, 2005. (9.15 am to 4.15 pm)
Saturday, October 22, 2005. (9.15 am to 4.15 pm)
Saturday, November 26, 2005. (9.15 am to 4.15 pm)
FOR MORE INFO or TO REGISTER: Call 514-807-4171
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