The book-production process, a whirlwind tour
How Books Are Made
English - September 06, 2020 16:47 - 46 minutes - 64.5 MBBooks Arts Business books ebooks publishing websites web development book production Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Arthur and his colleague Klara Skinner describe the entire book-making process in forty-five minutes. This is an episode especially for process junkies: a whirlwind tour through planning, commissioning, tools, writing and review, manuscript development and editing, design, permissions, typesetting, digitisation, artwork, stylesheets, software development, page refinement, proofreading, indexing, testing, deployment, publication, and those inevitable reprint corrections. Whew!
Links from the show:
A visual overview of the modern production processBasecamp for project managementFutureproofs for collaborating on page proofs virtuallySeth Godin’s blog post and conference talk on the ‘lizard brain’.