Bookmaking, 3/e

The Unchallenged Bible of the Publishing Industry.

Reviews:

"Marshall Lee's Bookmaking...[is] enthusiastically recommended for public, academic, and special libraries with book, journal, and self-publishing collections."
—Choice

 "This peerless book heads off all the common mistakes of fragmented publishing crafts by teaching the whole of bookmaking-editing, design, and production-as a single discipline. It's the book I learned from."
—Steward Brand, The Next Whole Earth Catalog

 "This is the best book currently available on bookmaking in the U.S."
—College & Research Libraries

 "For any serious practitioner of the book arts - professional or amateur - Bookmaking...is more than ever a primary volume for the reference shelf"
 —Publishers Weekly 

 "Lee is fully cognizant of the awesome, intimidating complexities of the new printing technology and has carefully organized this survey to present the information essential to the nonspecialist."

—Amerian Printing History Association Newsletter

 "When it comes to the basic process of translating manuscripts into bound books, Lee has written an invaluable masterpiece."
—The Huenefeld Report

Description:

Bookmaking is the introduction to editing, design, and production for newcomers, acclaimed as the premier text for students as well as a comprehensive reference for experienced hands. First issued in 1965 and revised in 1979, it has now been thoroughly reorganized and updated to reflect the profound changes in the bookmaking process and in publishing practices in the twenty-first century.

The computer-centered method of getting from the author's conception to completed print-or electronic-book has come to dominate publishing involving not only the setting of type but also the preparation of manuscripts, editing, illustration creation and processing page makeup, color separation, and preparation for printing. Even more significant than its use for these individual procedures is the computer's role in creating an integrated system that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Covering all of the publishing processes up to distribution, Bookmaking addresses the needs of publishing professionals, whether they do the work themselves in-house or have it done to their specifications by outside suppliers. The Third Edition is not about technological change only; all aspect of bookmaking have been reconsidered. The text that served the industry for nearly three decades has been updated where appropriate, while still providing the unchanging facts and principles of book craft.

 Target Audience:

Professionals in the book publishing industry, students and academics of book publishing course.