Services

Studio E Books can do whatever is needed to turn a manuscript, however rough, into a finished book ready to read. Our services fall into three categories: editing, book design and layout, and printing.

Editing

Editing can be anything from routine copy-editing for grammar, punctuation, and mechanics (which most manuscripts could use); to organization of material, development of plot and characters, writing titles and captions, and even inventing a joke now and then. We can also help select and arrange photographs and illustrations, and we can “edit” your scans and digital photos to improve them. We also offer high-quality scanning of photographic originals.

Book Design

Book design is the centerpiece of our work. Every job is a custom job, as our Portfolio shows. Our first goal is to help the author communicate with the reader, enhancing his or her message without showing off. Our ideal is a page that is not only easy to read but inviting, calm yet lively, well-balanced, and with a clear hierarchy. We also like asymmetry!
Our second goal is to design a book that does what it needs to do as economically as is practical. That means designing with a printer’s preferences and limitations in mind, as well as helping our clients make wise decisions about what they need.

Printing

Studio E Books brokers printing for hardcover and paperback books, and/or provides print-ready PDF files for traditional offset printing, digital printing, print-on-demand, and e-book readers. Please see the Specs page for details.

Publishing

Please note that Studio E Books is not a publisher; we do not offer marketing, promotion, or fulfillment. We do, however, offer sound advice to new publishers to set them on the right track. We do not provide ISBNs, which are available from R.R. Bowker. We do provide bar codes.

Advice & Opinions

Part of the baggage of 20 years in book-making is you tend to have an opinion about everything: whether or not to use the serial comma, whether Adobe Garamond is superior to Stempel (it is), or whether the bar code should include the price. We offer plenty of advice and opinions, especially when it will improve the book or save money; but we only suggest, we do not insist.