Handbook

What about the specifics of our book production?

1. Book text

1. Acquire book text in any form
   • title
   • subtitle
   • blurp
   • author bio
2. Typeset book
   • Affinity Publisher / Adobe InDesign
   • TeX / Tectonic
   • typst

2. Physical book design

1. Decide book dimensions
2. Decide paper gsm and calculate spine width
3. Design cover
   • front
   • back
   • insides
   • spine

3. Printing

1. Decide number of copies
2. Get quotes from printers
3. Decide retail price
4. ISBN
   • Issue and assign ISBN
     • https://www.nielsenisbnstore.com/
   • Generate EAN-13 ISBN barcode with zint
     • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Article_Number
     • https://github.com/zint/zint

4. Online presence

1. Supply book data
   • https://www.nielsentitleeditor.com/
2. Produce HTML files and create epub
3. Validate epub using epubcheck
   • https://github.com/w3c/epubcheck
4. Add book files on website