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Gregath Company e-zine
Volume 13, Number 11
November, 2014
Helping writers, genealogists and computer users of all kinds
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Please note that while an effort to generalize much of this text has been made, some references to "we, our, etc." still occur and much of the information provided applies to Gregath Company, Inc. and may not with other printer/publishers. ALWAYS double check with your printer/publisher on every detail.
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Table of Contents
You may click on each department below to
go directly to that article. At the end of each article (if supported) is
a link back to this contents.
What's It
Mean?
Design Inspiration
Book Manufacturing Concepts
Marketing Advice
Genealogy Ideas
Computer Help
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What’s It Mean? A-Z
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Corners - Traditional: Overhang shall be cut away at a 45-degree angle at each corner. All head and tale overhang shall be turned into the case, then the tip of the corner tucked in before the fore and back edges are permanently adhered. Meets library binding standard: ANSI/NISO/LBI Z39.78
Cover: The outer part of any book. Covers are generally classified as hard or soft. Type of cover effects types of bindings possible.
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For other writing, printing, publishing, marketing lingo, check our glossaries
at
http://www.gregathcomany.com/info/dictionary and
http://www.gregathcompany.com/info/dictionary/writers.html
Run across a word that
you don't understand? Try us -
email us your word, term or phrase and we will see if we can shed some light on
the matter!
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Design Inspiration
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Publishing a hard copy edition (unbound or in hard or soft cover) one-at-a-time (print on demand) presents some unique options most printed editions do not have. As you are printing a single book for a single customer, consider adding value to the book by including the following offers:
Number each POD book you produce. Keep track of books in hard cover and soft cover, or total produced. Your first could be 1 in 2014, 1 Print on Demand, or some other way - the next ordered would be 2, etc.
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This section is drawn from
http://www.gregathcompany.com/publish/design/digital/pod.html
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Book Manufacturing Concepts
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If publishing a hard copy edition (unbound or in hard or soft cover) one-at-a-time, consider creating a truly unique book by offering to produce additional customer supplied content as a family section for additional charge.
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This section is drawn from
http://www.gregathcompany.com/publish/design/digital/pod.html
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Marketing advice
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As family historians, most authors have a list of public (or private) repositories that they would like to see their work preserved in. Many times this list equals or dwarfs the list of "paying customers". Many times budget will impact how many courtesy copies may even be produced: Consider soliciting sponsored copies. With POD, there is no reason a special "donated by" page can not be included directly into the book binding. A more traditional route would be with personalized donation book plates. Further incentives, beyond the good preservation work, might include a gift, digital copies of source material, special access to your archives, etc.
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This section is drawn from
http://www.gregathcompany.com/service/marketing
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Genealogy ideas
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Were you a Master Genealogist user? Still trying to decide what to do next? RootsMagic reports that they have the most complete TMG import available anywhere and have prepared a guide that might be helpful.
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Have a tip? e-mail
us
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Computer aid!?!
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Needing to migrate templates from older systems? One work-around is to open each and save a "blank copy" as a file, then open that file in the updates system and save as template once more.
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Have a tip? e-mail
us
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About this e-zine
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