How might one go about deducing the age of a book with no publication date printed inside of it? [more inside]
posted by CheeseburgerBrown on Sep 27, 2008 - 9 answers

How do I convert my blog entries and comments into a book-type format (digital or analogue) without paying too much money? [more inside]
posted by divabat on Feb 28, 2008 - 10 answers

I'm going to print out a website and bind it into a book. For the printers, I need to turn everything into one PDF file. How do I do this? [more inside]
posted by mirileh on Feb 12, 2008 - 9 answers

In relation to printing/publishing history, I'm curious as to how and why latin was phased out in secular books. [more inside]
posted by peacay on Aug 24, 2007 - 19 answers

Why do letters in the same font/typeface vary slightly in a printed book? [more inside]
posted by provolot on Feb 14, 2007 - 11 answers

Should I bother with a publisher? How much do nonfiction authors make off a book deal these days? [more inside]
posted by antipasta_explosion on Feb 12, 2007 - 8 answers

I need to create an employee manual using only Microsoft Word 2000. Help! [more inside]
posted by ohio on Dec 15, 2006 - 3 answers

How to print a document created in Apple Pages through a POD service like Lulu? [more inside]
posted by ezrakilty on Nov 28, 2006 - 6 answers

Publishing Filter - what does a particular part of a book's copyright page mean? [more inside]
posted by greycap on Apr 16, 2006 - 7 answers

A colleague is interested in doing some personal desktop publishing and bookbinding. He came to me and asked a few questions I couldn't answer offhand and don't have the terms to google efficiently. [more inside]
posted by George_Spiggott on Dec 22, 2005 - 15 answers

I want to use cafepress to publish a small book of black and white illustrations, maybe about 100 pages. I'm concerned that their 100mb pdf limit will result in poor image quality. This is a personal project. Has anyone made an artbook through cafepress? Were you happy with the result?
posted by quibx on Dec 7, 2004 - 15 answers

ChicagoFilter: I'm looking for small presses in Chicago - the type that churn out lots of creative zines, etc. I LIVE here, but I'm having trouble finding where to go to get a good list going. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
posted by agregoli on Oct 26, 2004 - 3 answers

OK -- Regan does at roughly 3:00pm Saturday. Monday at roughly 2:00, the obituary issue of Time magazine arrives in my mailbox. Question: How in god's name did they do that? Even if if they had the issue sitting on pallets waiting to go (which they didn't because there was non-Regan material in there) how did they get the USPS to deliver it on the next business day? [more inside]
posted by rtimmel on Jun 9, 2004 - 20 answers