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Principles of Package Design

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Dangers of lean publishing

Sounds familiar, right?

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Proof-reading• By "experts"

• By "n00bs"

• By native English speakers

• By non-native English speakers

Still takes quite a lot of effort

Things to think about• Create a print-ready cover

• Fix layout issues in auto-generated PDF

• Fix more issues when uploading to Createspace

• Register your own ISBN

• ...

Let's see how it goes

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