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Thank you for allowing Bookmasters the opportunity to provide an estimate for your printing project. According to the specifications submitted and/or our comparable capabilities, house stock, etc., your estimate is as follows:
Quantity: 25
Trim size: 5 1/2 X 8 1/2
Page count:174
Text: Prints black on 50# white paperstock
Cover: 4-color process on 12pt. C1S with gloss UV
Binding: Perfect
Estimate: $95.87
Please keep in mind that INCLUDED with the price above is a $50.00 New Title set up fee. If you choose to run a reprint of the same title within a 3 month period, the new title set up fee will not apply to those.
You will need two PRINT READY PDF files, one for your covers & spine and one for your text. What you send to us is what we will print.
We offer Distribution to retail outlets, Marketing packages, ISBN’s, Copyright/LOC, and Barcodes, eBooks, eBook distribution and Composition services as well! If you would like to get more information on these services, please contact me directly!
We look forward to hearing from you and assisting you with your printing project.
My reply:
I went here:
https://www.bookmasters.com/pmlayout.html
That is like reading Greek to me. I can go to Word, to Page Layout, to Size, and customize the size of the Word Document, apparently. Then I can go to something called "book fold". That option in Word folds each page.
Going to your layout web page I find a sample .pdf file for 5.5 x 8.5 and in the effort to open that file with MS Word there is a demand for selecting encoding. I had this idea of then using the settings from the sample .pdf 5.5 x 8.5, using the program MS Word, to apply those sample settings to the already existing book written with MS Word, but MS Word opens the sample .pdf 5.5 x 8.5 file and displays text that looks like code.
I can open the sample .pdf 5.5 x 8.5 file with the program Adobe Reader and find a 5.5 x 8.5 Sample page of a book, not text that looks like code.
I am in need of help, a missing link to the right program, or an MS Word template, or a clue.
I have no clue at this point, but I can keep on looking.
Joe
I will print my first book and market it, but since this is my first book I need a trial run of copies to hand out and use as feedback on any remaining errors, or any revisions that may help catch the readers interest. If you can offer suggestions on a more economical proofing of the text, which is now a Word file, before spending any costs on printing, please let me know how better to go about printing this book. I need help at this point.
I sent that to this:
Book Masters
3/11/2013 cut and pasted from e-mail
Thank you for allowing Bookmasters the opportunity to provide an estimate for your printing project. According to the specifications submitted and/or our comparable capabilities, house stock, etc., your estimate is as follows:
Quantity: 10
Trim size: 4 3/4 X 7
Page count: 172
Text: Prints black on 50# white paperstock
Cover: 4-color process on 12pt. C1S with gloss UV coating
Binding: Perfect
Estimate: $88.35
Please keep in mind that INCLUDED with the price above is a $50.00 New Title set up fee. If you choose to run a reprint of the same title within a 3 month period, the new title set up fee will not apply to those.
You will need two PRINT READY PDF files, one for your covers & spine and one for your text. What you send to us is what we will print.
We offer Distribution to retail outlets, Marketing packages, ISBN’s, Copyright/LOC, and Barcodes, eBooks, eBook distribution and Composition services as well! If you would like to get more information on these services, please contact me directly!
We look forward to hearing from you and assisting you with your printing project.
Elizabeth Gilman/ Account Executive
egilman@bookmasters.com
Bookmasters, Inc. 30 Amberwood Parkway/ P.O. Box 388/ Ashland, Ohio 44805
1-888-537-6727 ext 1118 Check out our new website! http://www.bookmasters.com
Thank you. Have a great day!