This year, we’d like to offer a little something for those wishing for a little something extra from us on Black Friday or Small Business Saturday. To see what this is, visit our Facebook page. There is something for both the book buyer in our catalog and for the author wishing to start publishing. Facebook will be rolling out these offers, so check back.
2019 Black Friday & Small Business Saturday Offers Monday, Nov 25 2019
Marketing and Updates black friday, buy, discount, offer, publish, sale, small business saturday 11:28 am
May, 2018 E-Zine Monday, Apr 30 2018
Book Design and Book Production and Computer & Software and Definitions and Electronic Magazine and Genealogy and Marketing advanced reading copy, ARC, art, art work, artwork, binding, bound, economical, Genealogy, hard cover, hardbound, hardcover, idea, Internet, one of, one of a kind, personalize, POD, publish, publishing, resource, soft cover, softbound, softcover, special, tip 11:20 am
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What’s It Mean?
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ARC (Advanced Reading Copy): A sample publication produced with author/customer submitted material. Many times this is in an alternate binding (or unbound with small publications) than the main publishing. The reproduction process is usually not the same as the main printing (100+) and therefore differences in quality, text block placement, etc. may occur between the ARC and the published book. For POD, however, this gives the customer the chance to see the quality of photograph the supplied material will produce. Since Gregath works mainly from submitted camera ready copy, an ARC is generally not necessary. Our quality guarantee covers any printer error (such as upside down photos) that may occasionally occur.
Art(work): Non-text material (in our shop, this excludes photographs) – may include such things as decorative lettering (not font related), drawings, ornamentation, tables, charts, sketches, maps, reproductions of documents, decorative borders, etc.
Terms marked with an asterisk (*) are not generally used in our office.
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For other writing, printing, publishing, marketing lingo, check our glossaries at
http://www.gregathcomany.com/info/dictionary and
http://www.gregathcompany.com/info/dictionary/writers.html
Run across a word that you don’t understand? Try us – email us your word, term or phrase and we will see if we can shed some light on the matter!
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Design Inspiration
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For each project there are both expensive upgrades, and sometimes changes that can be made more economically than assumed: This is why communicating effectively with a publisher is important. Did you know when printing a few copies changing a page with personalized content is very inexpensive, altering a color cover can be cost prohibitive (though there are a few options).
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Book Manufacturing Concepts
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Perfect if producing POD, consider personalizing each book’s cover. This can be done with a simple name, different backgrounds or photos, graphic and fonts. The cost differences depend on type of cover which may also make total quantity ordered a factor. For large hard cover orders, have personalization done by extra line stamps for the most economic. For soft cover, the economical personalized options are more suited for non-printed spine options such as comb and saddle.
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From page http://www.gregathcompany.com/binding
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Marketing advice – not in this issue
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Check out http://www.gregathcompany.com/web
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Genealogy ideas
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Never forget that the internet brings new resources and ideas every day – when we look.
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Have a tip? e-mail us
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Computer aid!?!
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Have you considered using Skype, Facetime, or some other audio/video software to connect with other researchers?
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Have a tip? e-mail us
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About this e-zine
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Gregath Company, Inc. is pleased to present information that may be of help to authors and genealogists on a monthly basis in this format.
If you have decided since you requested this newsletter that you prefer not to receive mailings, please go to the following page and fill out the subscribe/unsubscribe form to be automatically dropped from the mailing list:
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NOTE: If trying to unsubscribe, supplying a different email address then the one you signed up with will result in multiple copies rather then being unsubscribed.
Back Issue information available through http://www.gregathcompany.com/zine or https://gregathcompany.wordpress.com
Current Publishing Service Sale Thursday, Jul 2 2015
Book Design and Book Production and Updates b/w, black and white, color, publish, publishing, reduce, reduction, sale, saving, savings, value 7:24 am
10%: Color for black and white
If color book page publishing in quantities of 10 or more, pay black and white prices for 10% of your total. The more you order, the more you save! This applies to any book pages (entire book or specified pages) ordered in color – binding prices remain the same. Examples:
- Publish 10 books, pay 9 for color and 1 color book black and white cost.
- Publish 100-109 books, get 10 color books at black and white cost.
- Publish 210-219 books, get 21 color books for black and white.
To qualify for this special offer, you must do the following:
- Specifically request this offer with your order/payment mailing.
- Send your manuscript, mailing information, and payment to arrive at the publisher before August 31, 2015.
Current Publishing Sale Thursday, Feb 19 2015
Book Production and Marketing and Updates book, discount, limited time, package, paperback, publish, publishing, publishing package, sale, soft bound, soft cover, softbinding, softbound, softcover, special 11:43 am
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p discounts over our soft cover publishing packages – until mid-April only. Visit the website for further details.
Electronic Magazine – December 2014 v13#12: Design Thursday, Dec 11 2014
Book Design and Electronic Magazine disc, disk, ebook, electronic, publish 11:52 am
Top reasons to publish electronically by disk:
Accessible without internet connection.
More easily definable and traceable sold “copy” then pure electronic file.
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This section is drawn from
http://www.gregathcompany.com/publish/electronic/media.html
Cool Savings for Color Hard Binding Tuesday, Nov 25 2014
Events and Marketing and Updates color, cover, discount, hard bind, hard bound, hard cover, hardbind, hardbound, hb, offer, publish, publishing, sale 11:25 am
Let us help you make the decision to go into hard cover a bit easier, we’d like to offer an additional $1.00 off our list price for publishing color hard cover books: This is good in any quantity. To qualify for this special offer, you must do the following: Specifically request this offer with your manuscript/deposit mailing. Send your manuscript, mailing information, and deposit to arrive at the publisher postmarked no later than 1-15-15. Include a copy of this post, or the top of our sales offer webpage.
Electronic Magazine – June 2014, V13#6: Design Monday, Jun 2 2014
Book Design and Electronic Magazine addition, augment, bonus, ebook, electronic book, publish, published, signatures, stamp collector, value added 10:41 am
Whether you choose to add electronic material to a traditionally printed book, or produce a fully electronic book, think outside the box on what you may wish to include:
- Think of the value added to the book for signature collectors to have electronic copies of family correspondence.
- What will family members who are philatelic (stamp) collectors say about scans of handwritten envelopes with stamps and postmarks?
- Help set the stage of history by including copies of newspaper and other publication items from the family, geographical area, or culture.
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This section is drawn from
http://www.gregathcompany.com/publish/color
January, 2014 Electronic Magazine – Design Tuesday, May 20 2014
Book Design digital, disc, disk, ebook, electronic file, electronically, file, physical copy, publish, self-contained 9:59 am
Top reasons to publish electronically by disk:
- Accessible without internet connection.
- More easily definable and traceable sold “copy” then pure electronic file.
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This section is drawn from
http://www.gregathcompany.com/publish/electronic/media.html
Free postcards or discounted business cards with publishing – limited time Monday, Sep 30 2013
Marketing and Updates 4 color, business cards, card, color, discount, four color, full color, offer, post cards, PR, promote, promotion, publish, sale 9:15 am
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eople who self publish (fund their own work), need all the assistance they can get. Through November,2013, we are offering free post cards when publishing at least 50 books, and $5-10 off 500 color business cards. These cards can promote the book, the author, or any number of other things.
Visit http://www.gregathcompany.com/service/salep.html for full details on any current sales offerings!
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