BEFORE PRINTING: A brief anatomy of the book for non-professionals

Anatomy of the Book If you have not thought about what parts a book consists of, but you already have a text ready to be published, it will be good to get acquainted with the most basic elements. Because these elements will be mentioned and discussed while communicating with a printing house or publishing house. Book signatures A book signature is a sheet of paper consisting of four or more printed pages and folded one or more times to the approximate size of one page of a future book or other printed product. It folds in a way that puts [...]

How Much Does it Cost to Print a Book?

Book Printing Costs Explained. Get Instant Prices for Custom Printed Books. The cost of not knowing the price of a product or a service could hurt you in the long run. How can you make a decision if you can't make an easy comparison between the different choices, features, and options? The first and most important thing you need to do if you are in the process of printing a book is to find out all the options that are available to you and what their prices are. This will allow you to get efficient and affordable pricing for your [...]

Your creative ideas with Pulsio Print: Essential steps to make your book shine in a bookstore

How can you make a thousand-year-old text shine by presenting it to the public in an appropriate form? It’s an opportunity to create a unique object, but how then to choose suitable paper, cloth binding, endpapers, boards and a dust jacket to add value to a book which is at once spiritual, literary and scientific? Here we present the design of the “Adamantine songs”: texts written in India towards the end of the first millennium. Spiritual in nature, they are accompanied by a scientific commentary. The challenge in preparing such a book is to reveal through manufacturing choices all the [...]