Our services
We provide a comprehensive range of services for print and digital media (websites, eBooks, eMags, flipbooks, CDs and DVDs):
- Design
- Layout
- Typesetting
- eBooks (ePub and Kindle)
- Technical illustration
- Editing and proofreading
- Website development
- Prepress
- Print management
- Multimedia management
Tips and resources
The following pages include tips and resources for those new to our industry, and general information on the services we provide. These pages will be updated and expanded on a regular basis.
Self-publishing tips
These pages contain tips and hints to assist first-time self-publishers and experienced authors (includes eBook publishing tips).
1. Through the minefield: a guide for the self-publisher (Part 1: Print publishing)
2. Through the minefield: a guide for the self-publisher (Part 2: eBooks)
3. Guide to the traditional book publishing process
Resources for graphic designers and finished artists
The pages in this series cover a wide range of subjects, but we hope all of them will be useful to the newcomer to our industry, as well as the veteran.
Those articles that relate to issues of spelling, punctuation and grammar do not pretend to be the definitive guide to Standard English, and neither do they lay claim to being scholarly works. Rather, they provide an introduction to what was once called Printers’ English: the rules, peculiarities and pitfalls of the language in its printed (and on-screen) form. Nevertheless, they are not meant to be a resource only for those directly involved in the production process. We hope that the budding author and hapless secretary tasked with preparing his or her company’s annual report will also find much of value here – as, for that matter, will anyone seeking to improve their English skills.
While every effort will be made to ensure accuracy of content, we make no claims to infallibility and do invite correspondence – and argument! Indeed, we hope to promote debate around correct English within an industry where, in recent years, we believe it has taken second place to attractive packaging.
1. Maintaining standards in printed English
3. The good old days . . . or were they?