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Printing a Book
- Parts of a Book
- Preliminaries: Title Page, Contents, List of Illustrations, Preface
- Text: Introduction, Body (chapters or sections with footnotes)
- Reference items: Appendixes, Bibliography, Index
- Qualities of a Good Book
- Well documented with footnotes
- Understandable numbering system, if it is a family history
- Includes historical and human interest stories, if it is a family history
- Complete every-name index
- Illustrations
- Copyrighted
- Ways To Save Money
- Prepare your own camera-ready copy
- Use 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" size
- Use even thirty-two-page signatures
- Perfect bind (glued papercover versus smyth-sewn hardcover)
- Print more copies than you think you can sell, but be reasonable
- Information Needed to Prepare an Estimate
- Size of book
- Type of binding (papercover versus hardcover)
- Number of pages (This is usually an estimate if camera-ready copy is not prepared.)
- Number of photographs (Photographs cost $14.00 each)
- Number of books wanted
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In order to provide a free estimate to print your book, we need: |
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- # of copies
(200, 300, 500...)
- size of book
(5.5"x8.5" cheapest)
- number of photos
- papercover or hardcover
- number of pages
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Please call or email this information to obtain your free estimate! |
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