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Self-publish a recipe book, it looks very easy. In fact, make a recipe book and let it sell well is very hard. Many factors affect it. So how to make a bestseller recipe book?
Check out the below introductions to find out the answer.
1. Eye-catching cover. A cookbook which most important part is the cover. When the buyers select the cookbook, his first eye is the book cover. If the cover can’t attract their attention, they will not open it and give it up. So custom a best-selling recipe book, the cover must catch the buyer's attention. When your book covers enough to grab the buyer's attention, they will stop at your book and keep reading it. That means most buyers will choose to buy your cookbook.
2. The selection of inner paper. At present, most of self-publishers will choose coated paper and matte paper to custom recipe book. Why not use offset paper? This is because the offset paper touch is very suitable, but the color is a bit gloomy. The pattern is printed on the coated paper or matte paper is very realized. Under the bright color rendering, it seems that the food is ready to come out. On the other hand, coated paper and matte paper are very solid and smooth. When the buyers read, it is not easy to damage and cut the hand.
3. The printing process. Custom a bestseller recipe book, printing proceed is also a big problem. If the recipe book printing use matte lamination, it looks very high end. But is not hot sale at the recipe book market. Because they used the recipe book in the kitchen. Matte lamination may suffer from water stains, scratches. It will have a bad influence on the heart of users. And most of the people prefer bright film. So if your recipe book uses bright film, which will be more popular in the recipe book market.
4. The font size of custom best-selling recipe book. Considering that the people who use the recipe book are all standing in the kitchen to read. The font size needs to be as large as possible. This way readers don't have to think about bending over to read while cooking.
5. The binding of custom recipe book. Based on my years of recipe book printingexperience. I found that most of hot sale recipe book often use glue with sewing hardcover. So that the book can be perfectly open and placed at all angles. It is convenient for readers to read at any time and anywhere. Even in the kitchen, it doesn't need anything to assist; it is easy to place flat on the table. To free the reader's hands and focus on cooking.
6. Custom a beautiful bookmark. For the convenience of readers to read and record, a best-selling recipe book often customizes a beautiful bookmark.
7. Attractive and beautiful pictures. Beautiful and attractive images catch the reader's eye more than words. So when you custom a recipe book and hope it hot sale, must be sure to work hard on the pictures. If you don't have the professional designer and photographer. You do better to find a professional design team to do that.
8. Cooperate with a professional printing house. This is very important. Because we relate it to the quality of your recipe book printing. If the quality is not good, then the recipe book can't sales well. Recipe book printing is in our DNA. Chinaprinting4u has more than 20 years of experience in the book printing industry. No matter what types of books you want to make,we can meet your needs. We had been helping thousands of clients custom their recipe book. Due to high-quality, their book sold well at the local market and overseas market. If you want to custom a high-quality recipe book and want it sales well,why not choose us?
When we print a book, how to choose paper for printing? The quality of books depends on the choice of paper. Different paper, the quality and cost to print a book is different. So different book printing services, the choice of paper is also different.
1.For the cover or illustration hardcover book printing, catalog printing, posters printing. We often use coated paper for such printing. Coated paper, also known as printing coated paper. Coated paper is made by coating a layer of white slurry on the base paper and calendering. The surface of the paper is smooth, the whiteness is high, the elasticity is small. More important,the absorption and reception of the ink are very good. After color printing, the pattern effect is bright and color gradation is very good. Thus,coated paper is suitable for custom hardcover books,catalogs,and posters.
2.For the inner page of photo album,brochure, hardcover book printing. Most of printing house will use the offset paper to print such of books. The surface of the offset paper is not coated with pulp. Although the gloss and smoothness are worse than those of the coated paper. But Offset paper has low flexibility, uniform ink absorption, good smoothness. Tight and opaque texture, good whiteness, and strong water resistance. So use the offset paper for such books printing,the quality is very good.
3.For the magazine printing, often use the coated paper and matt art paper. Due to these two type of paper is very smooth and reception of the ink is very good. The patterns use these paper to print is very beautiful and realized. So the magazine printing often use these two types of paper.
4.For the children's board book printing. Compared to other paper,coated paper is more suitable. Because use coated paper to custom board book is not easy to torn by the children. And the pictures printed on this paper is very beautiful. It is much easier to attract children to read. For young children,who are just beginning to read, the books they read are almost board books.
5.For the notebook printing,often use offset paper. Because the offset paper has small elasticity, uniform ink absorption, good smoothness. It is easy to write and alter. so it is more suitable for note book printing.
In short, different printing services,the needs of paper is different. Chinaprinting4u provides various of printing service. No matter what kind of printing service you want, we can meet your needs. Contact us to get a quote now.
In recent years, as parents pay more and more attention to children's education. Children's board book printing are very popular in the book printing industry. Publishers want to customize the version of the board book no matter what type of book. Which leading to the proliferation of board books.
Judith Schilders of Boston University in the United States. He proposed four stages of early childhood literacy behaviors. The four stages are book-holding behavior, picture-reading behavior, comprehension behavior, and pragmatic behavior.
The stage of holding a book is often aimed at children aged 0 to 3 years. And these behaviors include turning pages and biting the book cover.
Why custom board book for this age of children? Because compare to other types of children's book, board book more cost-effective. Children reading such books can tear, bite, and drop, but they are not easy to damage.
How to custom a good children’s board book?
1. The content design is must based on pictures.
A single object per page, and no more than 10 words per page. Because the attention time of young children is very short, children in this period often read pictures. Thus, the content design of the custom children's board book is not suitable for too many words.
2. Pay attention to the color design of the cover and content.
The cover design visually caters to children's psychological colors. From the perspective of color psychology, children prefer bright colors and graphics that describe the scene well. Children will have a more pronounced preference if they are portrayed as good characters and if things have good meanings. Thus, on the cover or content, the color quality of the printing must be good. And there should be no blurring of colors. Which will not only not attract the attention of children, but also affect the psychological needs of children.
3. Paper selection for custom board books. Most of board book printing often choose coated paper. Due to coated paper has high smoothness, strong water resistance. And strong reproduction of images. And Children's board books are printed with a large number of beautiful pictures. Which is easier to attract children to read. So printing children's board books on this type of paper is prefer to read. Besides, the thickness of paper, thicker is not the better.
4. Printing process: custom board books for babies is often use offset printing. Because the lithographic offset printing process is more mature. The printing quality is much better, the picture is more restored and the cost of offset printing is cheap.
5. It is necessary to pay attention to the rounded corners of the four sides of the book. As much as possible to maintain the smoothness of the book. And children will not scratch their hands because the paper is too hard.
6. Custom board books for babies must use green and fresh ink. The young children like to chew on books. If use ordinary inferior ink, the toxic gas will enter the respiratory system through the child's mouth. It will be damaging the child's health. Moreover, it causes damage to the environment, which is neither green nor easy to fade. Thus, at present, most of the children's board books printing often use soybean ink. This ink is safe, non-toxic, tasteless, rich in color, green and renewable. The most important thing is that it will not cause any harm to the body when used to print children's board books. So, some of the mineral oil is replaced by soybean oil in soybean oil-based ink.
7. Use water-based adhesives to custom children's board books. Compared with traditional EVA hot melt adhesives. Water-based adhesives have many varieties. It is very cheaper, green, and is more conducive to improving production efficiency.
Chinaprinting4u provides all types of board book printing service for self-publishers and companies. Due to high quality and reasonable, many clients have been cooperated with us many times.
how to get a book published ? Both self-published books and publishing houses are common publishing methods. But whether self-publishing your book or published by a publishing house needs to be carefully considered.
In recent years, with the development of the book publishing industry, more and more writers choose to self-publish their own books. According to the latest report from ProQuest affiliate Bowker. Self-publishing grew at a rate of 40 percent in 2018-and shows no signs of slowing down.
What is the difference between self-publishing and publishing house publishing the book?
1.The purpose is different.
Self-publishing is often to show academic achievements or to publish more books. Due to the small audience, it is generally only published, not distributed. The main purpose of publishing house is to make a profit, not only to publish but also to distribute.
2.Copyright ownership is different.
Publish the book at your own expense, and the copyright belongs to the individual (author). Publishers publishing the book is a partnership between authors and publishers. But the copyright belongs to the publishing house. And after publishing the book, the publisher pays the author.
3.The requirements for publishing books are different.
The requirements for self-published books are not as high as those published by publishers. Self-published books are sufficient as long as the content conforms to the publishing regulations. However, the publishing house not only needs to meet the requirements of the publishing regulations. But also needs a relatively high market prospect.
4.The cycle is different.
The process of self-publish is simple and the cycle is short. Authors can choose to cooperate with agency companies without spending a lot of time and energy. They only need to deliver the manuscripts that are in order, clear, and finalized to the agency company. The agency company can provide one-stop publishing and distribution services to help authors quickly and efficiently write books and save money. Publishing costs. Publishers have their own book review cycle, and it takes a long time. If the interpersonal relationship is not handled well, the content of the manuscript is not very innovative and the author is unknown, it is difficult to publish the book at public expense by the publishing house.
5.The cost bearers are different.
Self-publishing the book: all the cost of self publishing a book is borne by the individual.
Publishing house publish the book: The cost shall be borne by the publisher. Publishing houses are mainly aimed at authors who are famous in various fields, or have a certain mass base, or books that can sell well in the market. Because the publishing house bears the cost to the author to publish the book, it is to profit. So they only publish some books that have a certain market for free. But, the general author publishes books, their reading crowd is very small. So the publishing house will not publish some new authors‘book and new works for free. Thus, our common publishing method is that the author publishes at his own expense.
6.The printing method is different.
Self-publishing is find a book printer to print your book. The publishing house printing the book, it is the printing company entrusted by the publishing house to print in batches.
Why more and more people choose self-publish their book
"The self-publishing landscape continues to improve, creating more and more opportunities for authors to manage their own path through the process," said Beat Barblan, Vice President of Publishing and Data Services at Bowker and chairman of the board of the International ISBN Agency. "As more authors take advantage of the abundant tools now available to publish, distribute and market their own books, we expect that self-publishing will continue to grow at a steady pace."
Is self-publishing better than publisher publishing the book?
Whether self-published or published by a publisher, each has its own benefits. If your book had been popular online, choose cooperate with a publisher is a good choice. Why? Because the publisher have strong financial and network support, you cooperate with them. Not only is it beneficial to improve the popularity of the work, but also you don't need to pay any cost to publish your book. If you only want to publish your book show academic achievements, it is suitable for self-publishing. Because this kind of works have small audience, it is hard to published by publishers.
