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The Need for a New Cover

By Rosina Miranda

September 4, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Need for a New Cover

Book covers have long been considered the most immediately important part of a book’s design. A book’s cover is the first thing a potential reader sees in a bookstore, and has the dual job of adequately invoking the book’s contents and being aesthetically pleasing. Before the popularity of ebooks and the ability to buy books online, book covers were seen in person, usually on a shelf. In more recent years, publishers must take into account how their book cover will look as a thumbnail, which drastically changes the requirements.

Filed Under: Design, Publishing Tagged With: book cover design, digital books, digital design, ebook design, kindle design

Five Important Lessons We Learned from Freelancing

By Adrian Burke & Jenny Kimura

July 18, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Five Important Lessons We Learned from Freelancing

Do you like making your own schedule and choosing your own projects? Are you someone who doesn’t mind being home all day and is probably also a night owl? Chances are you’ve thought about being a freelancer, perhaps for design, editing, or marketing. The publishing world, like many other industries, is increasingly relying on outsourcing […]

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: book design, book publishing, challenges, Design, ebook design, Editing, freelance, freelance design, freelance editing, graphic design, lessons, Networking, Oregon, Portland, publishing, remote freelancing, Social Media, tips, tricks, upwork

The Frustration of an Epub CSS File

By Michelle Zhang

May 1, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Frustration of an Epub CSS File

Now, the issue of design as an ebook editor occurs when the epub file must be cleaned up. By “cleaned up,” I mean unnecessary tags removed. Imagine if someone got rid of all the span tags, including span class=”italics”, in all of the HTML files. Getting rid of the span tags means that the CSS file won’t be able to stylize the words previously marked by those tags.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: Cascading Style Sheet, CSS, Ebook clean up, ebook design, Ebook editing, Editing Css, Epub clean up, Epub design, Epub editing, Generated Css

Book Cover Design Tools for the Self-Published Author

By Meagan Nolan

September 14, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Book Cover Design Tools for the Self-Published Author

As a self-published author, it may be intimidating to start with all of the online outlets claiming they can make your book the next bestseller. After all, you’re a writer, not a designer. To help make the process a little less intimidating, here is a brief list of options that can give your book the beautiful face it deserves.

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