A Quick Guide to Book-On-Demand Printing: Learn How to Print and Bind Your Own Paperback Books

by Roger MacBride Allen

This book will teach you how to print and bind your own paperback books, with real wrap-around covers. It discusses the pros and cons of other means of getting published, deals with cover design, page design, page layout and imposition, hand-binding, machine binding, and many other topics. Armed with this book, your existing computer and printer, and a few simple and inexpensive tools, you'll be able to make good-quality paperback books for yourself. The book also discusses the tools, machines, computer hardware and software needed for doing faster, professional-style book production in your own home.

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Roger MacBride Allen is a US science fiction author of the Corellian Trilogy, consisting of Ambush at Corellia, Assault at Selonia, and Showdown at Centerpoint. He was born on September 26, 1957 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He grew up in Washington D.C. and graduated from Boston University in 1979. The author of a dozen science-fiction novels, he lived in Washington D.C., for many years. In July 1994, he married Eleanre Fox, a member of the U.S. Foreign Service. Her current assignment takes them to Brasilia, Brazil, where they lived from 2007 to 2009.