Why would anyone want to print a book, you ask?
Our customers fit a number of profiles. Some of the reasons our customers produce their books with us are:
Personal
Preserve your memories!
Print out multiple copies of your wedding or celebration album. They make excellent gifts! Turn them into gifts Photo albums (weddings, graduations, vacations, birthings, baptisms, etc) Journals, Gifts, etc.
Professional
You are an author and are interested in reaching an interested public. If that’s the case, we can actually do more for you than simply professionally produce your book: we can help market it and make sure it gets advertised and sold on sites like Amazon, Barnes & Noble and more!
Corporate
You need to distribute materials, whether they be promotional, instructional or legal. Our perfect binding technologies and hardback cover printing, along with our digital press full-colour print capabilities: we can give your corporate materials the professional look they need. We can even design them for you. Have a look at our full line of corporate services. manuals brochures corporate marketing highschool yearbooks.
Authorial/Editorial
Publish your fiction or journalism and put your title into mass distribution for sale on Amazaon, Barnes & Noble and more! Are you an Author? Then have a look at our marketing services: Choose if you want your book listed in Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and more! Choose whether you want to be listed in the INGRAM catalog. Do you want advertising and promotion services also? self-publish your book and put it into distribution through our professional marketing services...
An ISBN will only be necessary if you intend to distribute or market your book. If your book is for personal use only or to give out as gifts, then you can register the book with the relevant authorities or have us to do it for you.
ISBN (International Standard Book Number) is a unique identification number that is used by libraries and booksellers the world over to order your book or get distribution information on it. Once again, you will only need an ISBN if you intend to market your book.
Front Cover usually includes a photograph or illustration, book title and subtitle, author's name.
Back Cover: Can include an excerpt from or summary of the book, commentary, author photo and bio.
If you are looking to market your book, you will probably also want to include a UPC bar, an ISBN and a price on the cover. We can take care of this for you, so let us know!
In the meantime, you will need to find a good quality photo or illustration for the front cover. “Good quality” means a resolution of at least 300dpi (dots-per-inch). You can find the dpi by looking at the file properties of the image in your graphics editing software.
A copyright page like an ISBN will only be necessary if you intend to distribute or market your book. If your book is for personal use only or to give out as gifts, then you can register the book with the relevant authorities or have us to do it for you.
The copyright page is usually on the back of the title page, and contains the copyright statement, library cataloguing information, credits for photography, design, page layout, and printing, as well as contact information for the publisher and distributor.
The Copyright Statement
In Canada, to register a copyright you print a copyright statement inside the book. This copyright will be recognized in many countries. The copyright statement includes the copyright symbol (©) followed by the year and the name of the holder of the copyright (usually the author). For more information go to the Canadian Copyright Act.
In the United States you can register a copyright by going to the U.S. Copyright Office.
The copyright statement usually goes on the reverse side of the title page.
Getting Pagecount for Documents in Word 2007 & 2010
Getting your pagecount is easy. Usually it is visible at the bottom of your screen:
If you can't see it, or your document is divided into sections, they can get the pagecount by going to your ribbon and selecting "Review"
After you’ve selected "Review" you should see the word count button. Go ahead and click it. A small window will pop-up. Please take note of the pagecount totals.
