![]() It replaces Blurb’s BookSmith tool though current BookSmith users will be able to switch to this tool once their project is finished. My best recommendation for most authors though is BookWright, a desktop app with a WYSIWYG editor that builds a fixed-format EPUB at the same time as your print book. When you’re done you can create a fixed-format EPUB using their e-book editor. Import photos from your computer or iPhoto, Instagram, Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, SmugMug, 500px and Zenfolio. Simply choose a template, fill in the blanks, and you have a book that’s ready to publish, print and distribute. The printing quality is vastly superior.My recommendation for complete newbies or the tech-shy is Bookify, a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) cloud-based book design tool that lets you choose from six predesigned templates. Otherwise, I would have chosen CeWe (not sure in which countries this service is available). Bookwright is the only software provided by a printing service that allows the text to flow over multiple pages and to automatically adjust if you make changes. My book has a lot of text (many pages) coming along with the photos. I elected to work with Blurb for only one reason. I know people who ordered from France and received the book(s) from the US or even from China. Each time, I had to pay 9 euros to my bank for "international payment" although the book was allegedly printed in the Netherlands (I ordered from France). I ordered 10 copies of my book and then 20 copies afterwards. Depending on the country in which your book is printed, additional costs may appear on your credit card (international payment, custom taxes.). Personally, I recently printed a book with Blurb and the result was acceptable (not top notch, though - CeWe are better).ĥ. In which case the result might be unacceptable and involve requesting a reprint. All subcontractors work with a unique standard ICC profile that they have to abide with (you can dowbload this profile and do some soft proofing against it). You don't even know in which country your book will be printed. I said "usually" because Blurb delegates printing to subcontractors. I think that you'll find similar opinions about this problem. So, you have to be confident that what you see in Bookwright is not what you'll get. Don't even try to ask the Blurb support about this issue, they won't even understand your question. It's just uncomfortable to work with these ugly images. ![]() ![]() ![]() So you have to check your images outside of Bookwright in a color managed viewer (or in Lightroom itself - if the exported image looks OK in LR, it should be OK in the printed book). But the print will usually be correct (see #4, though). ![]() In that case, the colors displayed in Bookwright will be oversaturated. So, the colors you are seeing in Bookwright are not the colors that will eventually be printed, especially if you have a wide gamut display. Moreover, it absolutely ignores your display profile. Surpringly enough, Bookwright is not color managed. In Bookwright you can easily import photos from the Lightroom catalog.ģ. You'll benefit from much more editing features when using Bookwright, no doubt.Ģ. ![]()
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