On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Anne Gentle <[email protected]> wrote: > I went through the process a few years back for the OLPC (and maybe > SugarLabs) books but just didn't have the patience for the last bit of > details... I should pick it up again and see how far the last 10% > really is. Thanks James for posting.
Yes. Congrats James. Meanwhile, I too have been frustrated in my attempts to update the other Sugar manuals. For example, I made major revisions to the Turtle Art manual but cannot manage to get my changes to appear in the wiki, never mind go as far as the last 10%. Sigh. -walter > > Anne > > On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 12:53 PM, James Simmons <[email protected]> wrote: >> John, >> >> I may do a blog post on that subject if I can remember my login. It's >> pretty simple though. You use OBJAVI 2 to create your PDF in the size you >> want, using your style sheet. The size we call Crown Quarto is one of the >> choices, but they call it something else. The size they push is the 6" x 9" >> format, which OBJAVI calls USTRADE. So you submit this PDF. On books with >> 300 or more pages you might need to use a larger "gutter" than OBJAVI will >> give you by default, so you can put 10 in the "gutter" option to make the >> gutter 10mm wider. I only needed to do this for a USTRADE book I did. My >> Crown Quarto titles were fine with the default. >> >> Now if this PDF has illustrations CS will complain that they are under 300 >> DPI. If the pictures are diagrams, screen grabs, or photos of objects it >> might be safe to ignore these warnings. If there are photos of people you >> might have a problem. The only way to know is to get a proof copy and see. >> A proof copy might cost 4.50 US plus shipping, which might be another $5 or >> more if you're in a hurry. >> >> If it turns out you need 300 DPI pictures you'll need to use Open Office and >> one of CS's template files to make your book instead of Booki. I discovered >> when I used copy and paste to get my Booki pages into the template that all >> my italics disappeared and had to be put back by hand. This seems to be an >> Open Office issue. >> >> For your cover design you can submit a PDF (Inkscape has a wizard for >> creating a wraparound cover with the correct dimensions) but the way I did >> it was to use the cover wizard CS provides. >> >> The cover wizard is an AJAX app that walks you through making a cover. >> There are many cover designs to choose from, all named after trees. The >> one I chose is called The Palms, and it prompts you for a front cover image >> and a back cover image and lets you specify what you want printed on the >> spine and what colors to use. It will tell you the dimension of the image, >> which MUST be 300 DPI or more. So I used The GIMP to make my front and back >> cover images. I used a free font from FontSquirrel called ChunkFive for the >> title. There are some good articles on designing covers, etc. on the CS >> website. They suggested using a Display font for the title, because these >> are designed to be rendered in large sizes and the fonts you already have >> are not. >> >> Designing your own book cover with The GIMP can be fun, but if you like you >> can pay to have it designed by a professional. You can pay to have the >> inside pages formatted too. >> >> By all means get some color on the cover, because it is much too expensive >> to have color on the inside pages. Books are priced by the page count. It >> is the same price no matter what page size you use. They push 6x9 because >> that is an easy size to distribute, but you can use larger pages and save >> money. Color pages cost four times as much as B/W pages because each page >> has to be printed four times with different colored inks. If you have one >> interior page that needs color the whole book needs to be printed that way. >> So color pages only make sense for children's books where every page has a >> color picture or some decoration. There is no extra charge for a color >> cover, though, so get a nice photo on there if you can. >> >> You can do B/W on cream colored pages instead of white pages. I don't know >> what that costs. >> >> When you set up the book you can get a free ISBN number, use one you already >> have, or pay to get one using your own imprint. What I think this means is >> that if you think there is some kind of stigma to having your book published >> by Create Space you can pay for an ISBN and list the publisher as a >> different name. >> >> CS will calculate what your book costs to print and give you a minimum >> price. You can charge whatever you like above that. Your royalties will >> depend on where you publish the book. CS will give you a "Store" page on >> their own site for selling the book, and you will get MUCH higher royalties >> selling it there than you do on Amazon. Of course actually getting people >> to see that page is your problem. CS will also submit your book to be >> listed on Amazon.com in the U.S. only. To get it listed elsewhere you can >> pay a one time charge of $25 to get the book listed in catalogs used by >> bookstores. Without this listing you have no hope of selling your book on >> other sites or bookstores. With it you have no guarantee. It takes awhile >> to get listed from what I've heard. I have not bothered to do this for my >> books. I might do it for *one* book as an experiment. >> >> James Simmons >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 11:22 AM, John Curwood >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> After reading your post yesterday, I just had to go onto Amazon and check >>> it out. It was very cool when my search listed it (and the ebook) in the >>> search results. What was the process like to the the books into print form >>> on Create Space? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> John >>> >>> >>> On 04/03/12 03:29, James Simmons wrote: >>> >>> E-Book Enlightenment: Reading And Leading With One Laptop Per Child >>> [Paperback] is now on Amazon.com, again only the U.S. site. Outside the U.S. >>> you should be able to order directly from Create Space. >>> >>> Eventually Amazon will have Search Inside The Book working for this title >>> and you'll be able to appreciate all the great artwork done by Oceana Rain >>> Fields. This art did not survive translation to Kindle format. It looked >>> terrible there, so I had to remove it. Even in B/W it really adds something >>> to this printed edition. >>> >>> If the idea of having a really attractive printed book that explains >>> everything about e-books, including how to make them, seems odd to you then >>> you really should read the book! >>> >>> The URL is: >>> >>> >>> http://www.amazon.com/E-Book-Enlightenment-Reading-Leading-Laptop/dp/1470123223/ref=sr_1_14?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330784346&sr=1-14 >>> >>> James Simmons >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/discuss-flossmanuals.net >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/discuss-flossmanuals.net >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/discuss-flossmanuals.net >> > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/discuss-flossmanuals.net -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) 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