[Woodcarver] Book publishing specifications.

Mon May 24 12:04:59 EDT 2004

Joe thank you for your valuable input.  I don't read all the postings in
sequence. I responded on the group to Susan for her posting, but I hadn't
read yours yet. Just wanted to let you know I really appreciate the input.

I will be exited to see your work. I carved thirty years doing commissioned
original architectural work. Mantels, entries and staircases were my meat
and potatoes for a long time. I have a suitcase full of good quality photos
taken with a medium format camera and have considered doing something with
them.

Thanks again, Phill

Phill Pittman
digicarve at verizon.net
www.masterwerkes.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Dillett" <jdillett at thecarvingshop.com>
To: "[Woodcarver]" <woodcarver at six.pairlist.net>
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Woodcarver] Book publishing specifications.

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> Hi Bill,
>
> I'm learning about the specifications needed for book publishing as I
> prepare a ms for publication. The working title is Relief Carved History
> Mantels and we plan to have it available in the fall of 2006 or before.
I'm
> thinking that it'll take me a year to write the ms and it takes the
> publisher a year to get it to market. The publisher, at least in our type
of
> market, targets two seasons for book releases, spring and fall.
>
> With color digital photos a 300 dpi, RGB, in a tif format, Mac or PC. You
> need to have 300 pixels per inch of published picture. If you are printing
a
> 4" X 3" photo at 300 pixels per inch, the camera needs to create file size
> of (4-inches times 300 pixels) times (3-inches time 300 pixels) time 3
> colors (RGB) = 3.240 Mega pixels. That's just under a 3.5 Mega pixel
camera.
> It will not help to increase the file size in the computer, it has to be
the
> original camera size. As you edit, rotate, change file format etc, the
file
> sizes can be reduced so the publishers would rather do all the photo
editing
> themselves.
>
> I've got about $1,000 wrapped up in a Sony Cyber-shot 5.0 Mega Pixel
camera
> with a fine Carl Zeiss lens. The camera was about $700 and the case, extra
> battery and larger memory chip brought the total just shy of $1,000. This
> 5.0 Mega-pixel camera is still not good enough to shoot a publishable
color
> photo 6" X 4". A 6 X 4 requires (6-inch time 300 pixels) time (4-inch
times
> 300 pixels) times 3 color (RGB) = 6.480 Mega-pixels or 6.5 Mega-pixel
after
> cropping. My Sony Cyber-shot 5.0 Mega-Pixel camera shoots and prints a
> wonderful 8 X 10 color photo of the grandchildren, with such detail that
the
> smallest hairs are crisp, but it is still not good enough for publish
> quality of a 6 X 4 photo.
>
> Digital photos are the way to go but bracketed (changing f-stop or
exposure)
> 35mm slides are still the more economical method for photos over 6 X
4-inch.
>
> The specification for submitting the manuscript are, unless you are
> experienced in working with Quark, Xpress or Adobe InDesign, you should
not
> try and format your ms.. If you are using a modern word processing program
> like Microsoft Word or Word Perfect they are not print quality and the
> publisher would like no formatting, no imbedded files or photos, no
indents,
> no bold or italics, no centering headings or use of tabs, begin each
heading
> with a Capital letter but please do not type IN ALL CAPS, and either
Courier
> or Times New Roman font. Double or single space is ok.
>
> The number of pages is based on how many pages are yielded from a
signature.
> There are 8 sheets of paper (16 printed pages) from a signature for an 8
½"
> by 11-inch size page. That seems to be the standard even for smaller size
> pages. Production costs can be held down if you can limit the 4-color work
> (black, RGB) to one or two signatures, however remember the pages of a
> signature must be grouped together for binding. The number of words per
page
> will vary depending on the size of your page.
>
> This is what I've been learning over the last few weeks as I begin this
new
> venture.
>
> I would like to hear from those of you who have had books published and
> discuss questions like how many words will fit on what size page, font and
> font size, type of binding, techniques for holding down production costs,
> when do you use color photos and when will black and white be acceptable
and
> other things of interest in the book publishing world.
>
>
> Joe Dillett
> The Carving Shop
> 645 E. LaSalle St. Suite 3
> Somonauk, IL. 60552
> (815) 498-9290 phone
> (815) 498-9249 fax
> http://www.thecarvingshop.com
> jdillett at thecarvingshop.com
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> Subject: [Woodcarver] Visit wit Jim Cline, Edmonton
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> > I had the pleasure of visiting with Jim Cline, in Edmonton Alberta,
> > this weekend, which the wife and I were visiting friends. He gave me a
> > tour of his studio and of the carvings he has done. Especially
> > interesting are the carvings he is doing for his first book. I tell
> > you, he has some really neat relief carving projects. You better hope
> > that Fox Chapel accepts his book proposal.
> >
> > We spend the afternoon brainstorming about the structure of books and
> > the requirements for publishing. I am trying to convince jim to invest
> > the time getting acquainted with digital photography and computer
> > applications for the preparation of book manuscripts. I think I have
> > him hooked on the idea of electronic documents.
> >
> > BTW, Jim's wife, Pat, make a wonderful German stew, with rye bread and
> > salad on the side. Delicious. Thanks,Pat.
> >
> > More about Jim later...
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> > Bill
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