Book Design Made Simple

We have greatly enjoyed, and learned from, our contributions to the book design world. We’ve loved answering your questions and helping authors and designers on six continents produce the most professional-looking books possible.

However, in late October, we’ll be saying farewell to you all, and shutting down this website. We encourage you to reread the articles that h...

It’s easy to synchronize your paragraph and character styles using InDesign’s Book feature (done after the documents are added to your Book panel). We’ll explain how to do that, and also how to transfer styles from one document to another (this method can be used before the documents are added to your Book panel).

We all expect to see a copyright notice in every book. But where the notice appears and how it appears can vary tremendously. In this article we present a gallery of creative copyright notices for you to admire and maybe ...