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Comment on Know the Audience for Your Memoir or Family History by Zachary Evans

Zachary Evans — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:39:30 +0000

i am quite new to book marketing and i have to master that stuff too;~:

Comment on Know the Audience for Your Memoir or Family History by Phoebe Clarke

Phoebe Clarke — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:47:09 +0000

book marketing offline is quite time consuming but if we talk about online book marketing, it is a different story*,-

Comment on Know the Audience for Your Memoir or Family History by Faith Foster

Faith Foster — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:41:31 +0000

I really want to learn about Book Marketing but i have no talent for writing.“;

Comment on Do You Need an Editor for Your Memoir or Family History? by Bailey Singh

Bailey Singh — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 19:40:47 +0000

i am taking tutorial about self-publishing because it is also a good way of making money.,;*

Comment on Designing Your Memoir or Family History Book by Carlos Kelly

Carlos Kelly — Sun, 23 May 2010 16:32:15 +0000

i think Book Marketing takes more effort compared to e-mail marketing and social media marketing.:;”

Comment on Should I Format My Memoir or Family History Book in Word? by admin

admin — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:19:59 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Michael. You’ve raised an interesting question.

We certainly value Word for word processing, and if your book contains text only, Word might be sufficient. (A little design know-how never hurts in Word, either.)

However, the design of memoir and family history books usually features many images: precious family photographs, scanned artifacts, and other illustrations. The quality of the images is crucial to the success of the book.

If you have ever tried formatting images together with text in Word, you know how frustrating it can be, and how awful the results inevitably look. That’s why we design books in Adobe InDesign. It offers many superior options to control the quality of images and page layout.

Comment on Print-on-Demand Lowers Cost of Family History Books by Power of Ebooks in Modern World | Book Profits

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Comment on Should I Format My Memoir or Family History Book in Word? by Michael N. Marcus

Michael N. Marcus — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:17:40 +0000

>>Creating a PDF to submit requires considerable skill in using complex software programs like Adobe Photoshop and InDesign or QuarkXPress.<<

That's definitely not true.

While not everyone has the time, knowledge or talent to format a book, it can definitely be done with Microsoft Word, not only with more specialized software.

It's very easy to convert a Word file to PDF for printing, and takes just a few minutes of mouse clicking.

A great many books are formatted with Word. Some of them look terrible, but that's usually due to the limitations of a the person doing the formatting, not limitations of Word. I've used it for eight books, so far.

Michael N. Marcus
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