We ware taking advantage of our experience and contacts in various areas of printing and bookselling to produce a series of white papers and articles which we believe will be helpful to our customers. Links are to PDF files which you can open or download (usually by right clicking on the ‘Click here’ link).
Printing and publishing your own short run book.
Andew Hingeley of KainosPrint has just written a brief white paper on short run book publishing. It asks whether or not you have a book in you (and suggests that you probably do), economical book formats, paper choices, what software to use, basic book conventions to follow, useful material on ISBN numbers and Cataloguing in Publication data, setting a selling price, and promoting your book. Click here to open the white paper (in PDF format).
Prromoting your self-published book
One of our customers, Tim Quirey, has done an exceptional job promoting a book he published and which we printed last year. We spoke to Tim and asked him to distil his experiences for the benefit of others who have published their own books, or who are considering doing so. Click here to open the white paper (in PDF format).
An article by Ian Irvine, author of the best-selling Runcible Jones children’s books. The paper could be entitled ‘Everything an author needs to know before approaching a publisher . . . ’
The biggest problem for beginning fiction writers is that no one tells you how the system works. Becoming an author, and even a successful one, is therefore a series of shocks as your assumptions are punctured one by one. So here, distilled from Ian’s experiences with a dozen publishers all over the world, and conversations with many professional writers over the years, is the truth about fiction publishing. Well, popular fiction anyway – the stuff that sells. Click here to open the white paper (in PDF format).
Producing your own calendar for promotional, fund raising and gift purposes.
Andrew has also written a white paper on producing your own calendar. A well designed calendar which follows a few basic rules is an unbeatable promotional or fund raising tool. Your message is in front of the calendar user potentially every day of the year. KainosPrint makes it easy for you to produce a quality calendar. If you have the time, by all means do all the work yourself. If you don’t have the time, then let us do the work for you. Because we use both digital and offset presses, we can print in quantities from ten to tens of thousands. Click here to open the white paper (in PDF format).
