Our monthly electronic magazine has now been brought up and is current. You can view individual entries on our blog – by subject, or go to our website to view them by issue.
Electronic Magaizine Issues now all current! Tuesday, May 20 2014
Book Design and Book Production and Computer & Software and Definitions and Electronic Magazine and Genealogy and Marketing and Updates blog, electronic magazine, entry, ezine, issue, magazine, monthly, periodical, publication, subject 10:37 am
May 2012 E-Zine (V11#5): Marketing Monday, May 7 2012
Events and Marketing attendees, engagements, event, meeting, seminar, speaking, speech, subject, topic 12:15 pm
Especially if speaking at an event that you are not otherwise compensated for, don’t forget to ask those in attendance to, not only spread the word about your book, but also if they can think of any other groups who might enjoy you as a speaker. Don’t be shy about taking contact information and following up the leads.
-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
This section is drawn from
http://www.gregathcompany.com/marketing/events.html
April 2009, V8#4: Genealogy Monday, Apr 6 2009
Genealogy addenda, addition, Copyright, subject 8:54 pm
Q. There is a pre-existing work on the subject material I’d like to publish a book for. Is there a way to further the work done in that book, if I don’t have a Copyright release?
A. If you are working on new material to complement an original book, your first step is to try contacting the author or her estate. You can work with them as to how much of the original content you may use in your new book. Even if you don’t wish to use any of their original content, establishing a relationship will help spread the word about your project.
If unable to obtain Copyright release, your new book should not be presented as an update. However, your new material can fully cross-reference previous works that you don’t own. For instance, you add more information on “Sally” and “Jerry”, who were children in the original work. They both have families of their own now and Jerry has a new grandbaby. All this factual information can be included in your new book – just no “stories” as printed in the original book. You would then make a note that these two were listed on page XX in The book. Your new material can reference many previous works in this way.Visit our Copyright web page or the Library of Congress for more information on Copyright.
-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
This section is drawn from
http://www.gregathcompany.com/msschelp.html
September 2003, V2#9: Design Saturday, Jan 17 2009
Book Design and Electronic Magazine background, crop for effect, cropping, enlarge, forground, free, half tone, halftone, reduce, service, subject 6:20 pm
While crop for effect (as mentioned last month) is usually a little more expensive at most publishing houses, we perform this service to some extent, free of charge and the end result is much more gratifying. Our professionals will choose exactly where the half-tone should be cropped and/or enlarged/reduced at no additional charge to you. After all, are you trying to show Uncle Ed or the yard he was standing in? Of course, there are times when the background IS the picture. We also receive instructions to enlarge or reduce to a specified size without cropping and it is physically impossible to comply, because without cropping, the size specified cannot be reached from the original without warping the outcome. Enlargement or reduction can only be done overall, not in only one direction. When we face such a problem, we use the largest dimension, and let the smaller fall where it may. [If 3″x5″ is specified, when we get to the 5″ measurement, the requested 3″ may be less than 3″.] If an author prefers total control over their sizing and cropping, this can also be done with us at an additional charge in-house or they can send exactly what they want and mark “same size originals” at no additional cost.
-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
This section is drawn from information online at http://www.gregathcompany.com/tips.html
August 2003, V2#8: Design Sunday, Jan 11 2009
Book Design and Electronic Magazine background, cover letter, crop, crop for effect, do not cut, enlarge, foreground, half tone, instruction, manuscript, negative, new print, offset press, original, photo, photograph, picture, reduce, subject, submission 3:51 pm
We receive manuscripts, including pictures with the instructions “Do Not Cut Pictures”, every day. No printer that we know of would have any reason to cut your ORIGINAL pictures/submissions. In our printing process, a negative and a new print [known as a half-tone) must be made in order to be reproduced on an offset press. Many snapshots are of one or a few family members, with a whole lot of unnecessary background. Most of these pictures show very little, if any, detail of the subject. If they were enlarged and the half tone “cropped for effect”, the same size picture would show the subject(s) in much more detail.
April 2008, V7#4: Computer Wednesday, Dec 31 2008
Computer & Software and Electronic Magazine ask, browser, clusty, Genealogy, question, search engine, sentene, software, sort, subject 2:16 pm
Today’s browsers are great to help with general searches. Many places and software even load extra search toolbars into your browsers. But, for genealogy searches, don’t stop with that. Become a student of search engines: Find out how you can narrow your search with different engines. Find at least one “engine” that searches more than one. Not used to doing computer searches? Go to ask.com – there you can use a regular sentence to search without being penalized for using words like “and” and “the”. Also consider trying clusty.com – this search engine places your returns by subject. In this way, if you were to look for “Homer Simpson” all the cartoon stuff would be sorted out for you.
Gregath Company, Inc. Blog 