Essentials of Book Layout - Book Typesetting Explained
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- Опубліковано 30 кві 2020
- Typesetting, book layout, book interior design - it goes by different names probably because it's a far more complex part of the book publishing process than most people realize. Many authors think they need to lay their book out in Word so it looks good. Others try using free tools on Amazon KDP to upload their book. Ultimately, if you care about your reader experience and you want to produce a book that is extremely professional, you need to understand what is involved in a professional design. In this video Julie Broad, author and founder of Book Launchers explains all the essentials you need to understand about book layout whether you're doing it yourself or hiring a professional.
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Sweet Jesus, thank you. Typography, spacing and even the subtle details of the individual letters like ligatures, bowls and loops, ascenders and descenders, and YES, orphans and widows(!) make or break the layout of a book.
Wow, thank you! :) 'ligatures' - look at you!! :D
I totally underappreciated this originally... but thankfully y'all have an eye for perfection and made my layout great!!
Our pleasure! And honestly - until I started this company I didn't realize how involved it was either. I just knew some books were not good/easy to read.
Wow, this is the first time I have ever heard of typesetting and your explanation was packed full of stuff that totally makes sense. Thank you, I am now one of your happy subscribers.
Glad it was helpful! thank you!!
A much needed video to explain book layout. Thanks for sharing this with us. You have the best knowledge in book publishing
You are so welcome! :) And thank you. 😊
Oh my! I'm all for leaving this to the professionals! Thanks foe the info.
Any time! And I'm with you ... not going to mess with that myself. :)
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Never considered this to be an issue! Thank you Julie!
My pleasure. Thank you for stopping by and for commenting the day a video is released. Everyone who comments on the day a video is released is entered to win some sweet #noboringbooks swag. We do the draws LIVE and the next one is on Tuesday, May 12th at 2pm PST / 5pm EST - really hope you can be there! And, if you can’t, the replay will be available so you can tune in to hear if you won!
@Julie your enthusiasm is fabulous and total set my day a fire! Hands down the best vid I’ve seen all day! Ok it’s 6:00 am but I’ll be surprised if this still isn’t true at the end of the day. I’m excited to be working on book interior and thanks for making it seem not so arduous. Much love ❤️
:) Thank you!
If you need a break we have a livestream at 2pm PST today ... always great to have folks join in LIVE. Of course, the replay will be posted as well.
Hope to see you around soon,
Julie
thanks Julie very helpful
Great info! You are so right that the font can help create the experience for the reader.
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Great and hugely helping video...Thnx much Julie...
You’re welcome 😊 Thank you so much for saying hello! If you’re just getting started with writing, I highly recommend our 7 steps to write a non-fiction book. You can get that at www.booklaunchers.com/7steps and if you’re ready to market a book our Gameplan for selling 1000 books with less than $100 is a great way to start planning your book marketing. You can download that for free at www.booklaunchers.com/gameplan
Hope to see you again soon!
Excellent video. It definitely gave me a greater appreciation for the importance of how you set your book up.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for making all these videos. They’re really helping me in my research as I look forward to what I need to do after I finish up my book. :)
Aaron Crowley Hire Book Launchers is what you do 😋🌟👍🏼✅
CoachDeb, I would, but I’m not writing a business book, and it’s a bit out of my price range.
Aaron Crowley that is the nice thing about Julie making these videos for everyone to learn how to write and publish their own book and not need a publisher. Such a wonderful gift she gives all of us. And all we have to do is LIKE all her videos and SUBSCRIBE 👍🏼✅❤️ seems more than fair 🤩🤩🤩
Glad to help! Thank you for stopping by and for commenting the day a video is released. Everyone who comments on the day a video is released is entered to win some sweet #noboringbooks swag. We do the draws LIVE and the next one is on Tuesday, May 12th at 2pm PST / 5pm EST - really hope you can be there! And, if you can’t, the replay will be available so you can tune in to hear if you won!
Thanks Julie.
Thank YOU!
I have been doing my author research in the last 2 days and have noticed how much difference there is in Kindle books when I "look inside". Some are lovely, others are crowded with no white space between pages or chapters. Guess this explains why... And that's exactly why I have engaged Book Launchers to help with publishing my book!
And it is absolutely our pleasure to be working with you! Thanks Martha.
I've been going over and over my manuscript but wasn't sure why. This video helped put things into perspective for me. Thanks for the tips, but especially about Vellum!
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Appreciate these tips. Thanks.
You bet! I appreciate you being here and commenting.
Thank you for this extremely helpful video! Your tips and enthusiasm are always motivating! Keep at it!
Thank you so much for saying hello! If you’re just getting started with writing, I highly recommend our 7 steps to write a non-fiction book. You can get that at www.booklaunchers.com/7steps and if you’re ready to market a book our Gameplan for selling 1000 books with less than $100 is a great way to start planning your book marketing. You can download that for free at www.booklaunchers.com/gameplan
Hope to see you again soon!
Book Launchers I have been taking so many notes and the 7 steps was so helpful! I love your approach and the way you communicate topics that are complex, especially for a beginner! I will be exploring more of booklaunchers for sure! I am in the editing stage and it can seem overwhelming but booklaunchers really helps in knowing it is possible!
YOUR VEDIOS ARE AMAZING!!!!!!
Thank you!! :D
Very helpful! I think I need to get a pro!
Very helpful.
Glad to hear!
VERY GOOD PRESENTATION. VERY INFORMATIVE AND EDUCATIONAL.
Glad it was helpful!
#4 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
thank you, well said.
I can also see why you have 162 likes and only 1 dislike. Ok, time to own up, who and why did the thumbs down??? I don't get it. Awesome video, thanks again.
Thank you so much for saying hello! If you’re just getting started with writing, I highly recommend our 7 steps to write a non-fiction book. You can get that at www.booklaunchers.com/7steps and if you’re ready to market a book our Gameplan for selling 1000 books with less than $100 is a great way to start planning your book marketing. You can download that for free at www.booklaunchers.com/gameplan
Hope to see you again soon!!
The video editing is impressive. Studio38 should get all the credit? Excellent quick tips and honest and definitely useful.
Studio38 is not my video editor - they are UA-cam Besties but I don't even know if they edit video.
This is what I do: I'm not saying its best practice but I write about highly technical non-fiction topics where my qualifications are more important than formatting.
1. Ragged Right. Unless you kern and check for bad hyphenation your automatic right justification will suck.
2. CENTERED page numbers, not mirror image. This is because edits may change my left page into a right page.
3. CENTERED headers, not mirrors. Then I don't have a sea of white space at the top. Author name and title of book. Or not at all. Sometimes I simply omit headers.
Single spaced TWELVE point times new roman. 6x9.
This leads to a book which while NOT the best layout is nonetheless competent.
another reason for right ragged is to avoid "rivers" of white space flowing through your paragraphs.
and yeah, non-indented paragraphs with leading blank line for non fiction, indented for fiction with no leading blank line.
.79 all around margins. These are all quick and dirty settings. It's not that i recommend it but I think it results in an acceptable book which is fairly easy to make.
Great tips!! Thanks for sharing. :)
Thankyou so much for this video! I was already looking for a professional for typesetting, I'll surely checkout the software vellum which you recommended! Keep up the great content, Love from India.
You're very welcome!
LOVEEEEE this!!! Your videos are SOOO HELPFUL! Question~ when formatting a book for the interior it seems some books have spacing between paragraphs and some don't. Is there a preference for readability? Or is it just a personal choice?
Personal choice ... there can be reasons for it like more white space which is easier on the eyes but it will be a personal choice you make with the designer.
Good video
Glad you enjoyed!
I have 18 years of publishing experience. I would love to work with you, Julie!
You can check out the jobs we're currently hiring for at booklaunchers.com/jobs - we are only looking for contractors right now. There are no full-time positions open. Often we hire our contractors in-house though over time.
This is why a writer uses Book Launchers. Stuff I can only mess up!!!!!
I upload a Word Doc to Kindle Create. It does the heavy lifting and I've never had any real issues. Kindle create is Amazon's own software.
#Julienoboringhuman! Thank you so much for your energy !
I swear by Vellum, love it! Vellum has Baskerville font too - the one you said was the most trusted. My new book has that font. It's uploaded and waiting for the eBook presale to end - May 3rd.
Glad to hear it. I've never used it but have heard enough folks like yourself say Vellum is great that I felt good mentioning it.
A really great video! I learned a lot within the space of 8 minutes. Funnily enough, I do encounter a lot of badly broken words at the end of lines and orphans in professionally published books. Also, is it a rule not to leave single letters, such as articles, or short words, such as prepositions, at the end of a line?
Generally, yes that would be the case!!
Thanks for stopping by.
Haha good eye, love it. Not convinced I've got a good eye but will test which eye of mine is good lol #NoBoringBooks
:)
My name made into a video! Awww. It’s an honor!
OOOOH actually I think you might be in back to back as I changed up the order of release :)
@@BookLaunchers That's awesome! I'm honored to be a part of your community. Thank you for everything you do!
A friend and I went to see The Sixth Sense in the theater. The only seats available were in the front row. From that position, every actor on screen looked like Jay Leno (big chinned). It was hilarious.
HAHA how was your neck at the end of that one? :)
Hello Julie!!! Awesome content; I have been learning from you for the last 3 hours. And I have learn tons of things. Thank you!!! And I have a question for you and if there is a comment from some one in this amazing community. What is your opinion to get Designrr app? Is Vellum better in your experience? Thank you for your time.
Hi - I am not able to help you as I haven't used Vellum or Designrr app. It takes a special kind of patience and attention to detail to do book layouts - even with those software programs. Those words don't describe me. :) I have never attempted book layout on my own. Good luck!
@@BookLaunchers Thank you very much!
Great vid :) do you do low-no content?
I don't - my friend Dale Roberts and his wife Kelli Roberts talk about low-no content books all the time though if you're looking for resources on that!
I am currently working with my educational book that has circuit diagrams, equations, and pictures. I am struggling to figure out how they all are typeset professionally. I tried Adobe InDesign, due to lack of tutorials on it I couldn't find a way to do this. Most of the tutorials are for novels. Your help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Best of luck! I only hire professional designers - which was essentially what this book is about because I have not been able to do it myself.
Do you also assist people from South Africa???
Occasionally - so long as their primary marketing audience is the US and Canada (or they have strong marketing connections for their own country).
Oh yes, I'm sure we've all opened a book and found the interior design so distracting, it was difficult to 'inhabit' the book... The fewer distractions which take away from the total experience the better.
I totally agree! Thank you!
What if you're writing poetry with different fonts/sizes/spaces? I am finding difficult to transcribe my work, because it's so dependent on the limitations provided by word itself (where I wrote it)...is there anyway I can transcribe my pages via pdf? or some kind of image/insert?
Sorry this is out of my area of expertise - maybe Dale Roberts at Self Publishing with Dale can help?
@@BookLaunchers Thank you kindly! I always appreciate y'all.
with poetry or really any artsy fiction book you have enormous liberty which you must use with greatest care.
For your print book pdf is great on amazon
For your kindle though you're stuck using docx BECAUSE kindle is reflowable. You've no idea how big or small that device window will be. If someone wanted to argue eBooks suck that would be a good claim.Amazon doesn't let you submit 4 different interiors for e.g. small phone, large phone, standard tablet, standard computer. But you would require such for non-reflowable formats which almost always read better than reflowable.
SO I use ebooks as ads for my print books and expect print books to survive digitization.
@@QuizmasterLaw holy crap, that's EXACTLY what i was worried about, the sizes of phoones, tablets, or screens. because.. well, the poetry's spacing is super exact and even if one line is off, it literally makes some poems feel like they don't make any sense and are stupid.
Thanks for the advice, i gotta approach with caution
@@sirsoos3546 yeah, your beautifully formatted poetry WILL get munged as an ebook. Plan accordingly :(
What is the cost of designing and laying out
one thing also that is kind of new. Is Apple now has a thing called pages and it basically moves word Documents over to their own setup. It totally throws everything off so be careful with that. I personally asked my Publisher what was preferred settings and put it on my word set up with a header and page number and margins. That way I had a base to work off of. Also always take your time your first draft is just that and expect to do more I ended up with eleven drafts before I was done.
Wow - ok good to know!!
"I higher prose."
HAHAHAHA just rereading this and it made me LOL
Who usually does the typesetting for a self-publishing children's book?
Usually an interior designer. Contact Keith Wheeler Books (channel on UA-cam) for help.
How do you hire someone to finalise a book design? Are they just called a designer?
Yes book layout or a book designer or a typesetter are all terms used. You can look at Reedsy.com or TheUrbanWriters.com (Use code BOOKLAUNCHERS at checkout for 5% discount if you go there).
Is it the same for fiction books? I've been watching some of your videos and you mention non-fiction, but not fiction.
At this time we only work on non-fiction adult books. This video explains why, and includes some resources for our fiction author friends. ua-cam.com/video/Qt14t0xIR80/v-deo.html
For Children’s Books, this video provides support and an introduction to someone who can help: ua-cam.com/video/AOdJvz1ntIk/v-deo.html
@@BookLaunchers that makes sense. Can you recommend a channel that’s geared towards childrens picture books?
I’ve tried, however I may not be using the correct terms because nothing comes up.
@@adrianaformisano5159 Did you watch the video I sent? It recommends Keith Wheeler Books and he has other resources for you too.
Please I need the service of someone who can help me with an excellent interior design.
Hi. We do that if it's non-fiction and you want full-service. Otherwise check out reedsy.com and you can hire a formatter.
Do Book Launches help format a children's manuscript with illustrations into a book by doing the book interior design or book layout?
You mean like when I watched "Manos the Hands of Fate?"
Yea this is confirmation to pay someone else.
The most annoying voice ever. "Doctor, heal thyself."
You know that nobody MAKES you listen to the video if you don't want to hear me? You can read captions or just find someone else to watch.
Stay off the coffee.
Actually, I stopped watching this video because the host was so irritating.
Fr her voice is randomly high pitched and shi