Self-Publishing: How to Make a Book
Whether you are an independent publisher, a self-published writer, or just assembling your family history, class yearbook or fund-raising cookbook, this workshop will provide you with the insight needed to maintain ownership and control of your book; understand the digital printing process; determine what areas are best left to a designer or a desktop publisher; what areas you can handle yourself, and how to avoid extra costs and unnecessary delays along the way.
Thursday, May 14
Intrepid Studio
1609 Blanshard Street (entrance on Fisgard)
1pm-3pm
Free!
To register for this workshop: e-mail workshop@pacificfestivalofthebook.com with the name of the workshop in the subject line and include the name(s) of those planning to attend in the body of the e-mail. There is no cost for this workshop. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to learn from the experts. And bring a friend.
An outline of the workshop in pdf format is available here.
About Melody Poirer
After 8 years with her own consulting practice as a software analyst in Vancouver, and a term at UBC in their Multi Media Studies program, Melody Poirier moved to Vancouver Island in 1999 and studied at Victoria College of Art through their extension program. She came to work for Island Blue Print in 2005 and has been with their Printorium Bookworks division since 2007. She has written a series of short stories about her experience during the 70’s as a groom and apprentice animal trainer for a lion and tiger act with an American circus.
With an understanding of the writing process, and a strong background in software support, Melody clarifies the progression of getting your work from your word processor to “print ready format” and beyond.
About Printorium Bookworks - Leading The Way In Short-run Book Printing
Printorium
Bookworks is the book printing division of Island Blue Print Co. Ltd. a company
established in 1912 in Victoria, British Columbia. Island Blue offers a full
range of digital printing/copying and scanning servicesand the sales of fine
art and craft supplies along with custom picture framing. This unique division allows you to print Books-on-Demand, including soft covered black & white and full colour books. Along with our book printing, we offer full colour printing of bookmarks, business cards, promotional brochures and posters to enhance the marketing of your books. Our Print-on-Demand procedure allows for the printing of a few books to as many as 1000.
The book printing solution Printorium Bookworks offers self published authors and the publishing industry results in speed, reliability, flexibility, extraordinary image quality and most of all, affordability for all your book printing requirements. We are able to offer a powerful solution which takes advantage of opportunities that did not exist until recently.
At Printorium Bookworks you’ll find a wide range of digital printing services under one roof. Our friendly and knowledgeable staff focuses on providing the best solution for your book printing needs. Together, technology and skill create a measure of excellence in every job we do. Printorium Bookworks produces the exact quantity of books, from a single copy to thousands when you want; no guesswork, no warehousing and no waste. Using the latest in digital print equipment and skill, our high-quality printing of text pages and covers, combined with professional binding and laminated covers, makes books produced by Printorium practically indistinguishable from offset-printed books. As well as offering a solution for black & white books, we produce full-colour picture books, children’s books, art books, photography books, cook books, comic books and graphic novels
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