Dear Bob: I read your note about your publishing work. I am reminded that you generously responded to my earlier requests for help about using Scribus to publish a book. I haven't forgotten your kindness. I still do not have the book finished, but your encouraging words have stuck with me. I wish I could help you with the questions you raised, but I am a novice at this electronic publishing business. Just don't agree to pay for more books than you reasonably expect you can sell. Hawking books is a difficult process, as I have learned over the years. I understand you are tired of the work involved, but unless you want to dish out some up-front dollars on the hope that you can sell your books, I would encourage you to keep at your present program and just consider it a form of entertainment rather than as a business.
The best to you, and thanks, Mike Coughlin -----Original Message----- From: bobparham at comcast.net [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 1:12 PM To: Scribus List Subject: [scribus] Having a Book Published I have recently completed my autobiography, a book containing 300+ pages and 70+ illustrations. I did this with Scribus, converting each chapter and Cover into a .pdf file which resulting in 25+ .pdf files. I started the book over three years ago using, I believe, vs. 1-3-12 later going to 1-4-0. I have printed 72 copies of the book and had a caregiver, with my instruction, bind all these books using "perfect binding". I have, at this point, sold 65 copies which have been well received. Financially, I have come out alright since the biggest cost item is ink and I get ink cartridges for my Canon printer at a fraction of the cost for OEM cartridges. However, at 87 years old I am tired of all the work involved and am ready to try to get a publisher to take it over. (The copyright has been registered) I have some questions regarding this process. (1)I have not "collected for output" and though I have read a number of articles I am still not completely certain about the process. (2)Should I combine files in order to reduce the number of files? If so, how would I go about doing this? (3)I have read that some publishers require a resolution of at least 300 dpi for photos. Not all mine do since I had to hunt for photos for illustrating wherever I could find them. (4)A good many of the photos are in color. Should I convert some to grayscale in order to cut cost? (5)The files are all PDF 1.3. I would appreciate any assistance I can get in pursuing this goal. Since this is not all Scribus oriented I will be happy to receive tips and information directly by email if someone so desires. Thanks, Bob P. -- *People may forget what you did and people may forget what you said but people will never forget how you made them feel.** * (\__/) (='.'=) (")_(") -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20140911/002553ba/at tachment.html> ___ Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net Edit your options or unsubscribe: http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus See also: http://wiki.scribus.net http://forums.scribus.net
