The book is square with a size of 8.5 inch x 8.5 inch. It still a soft cover (only choice offered by Amazon KDP). I also used the glossy cover finish, instead of matte.

– In contrast with my previous books, which were in B&W, this one was in color. Here are some details about the book and the publishing process: I think the result came out OK enough, especially for the price and printed on demand, although it is obviously not Taschen-level quality. Here are some additional images of the interior, back cover and spine. Here is the code that was used to generate it (I had put a link in the comments after it was requested this is the same): Here is the full PDF of the paperback version of the book as uploaded to Amazon KDP: Someone in the comments also mentioned Affinity Publisher as a cheap alternative for desktop publishing that may be easier to use than Scribus. I actually would recommend that over Python + Reportlab for anything a little complex to layout. It is kind of like Adobe InDesign (but free) and it is quite easy to develop extensions in Python to automate parts of the workflow (I have written some for my second book here). I am planning some other book projects I care about more and this allowed me to see if it was worth it putting in the effort.Įdit September 2020: Since writing this, I have published 3 more books: Instead of using Python code and Reportlab to format the book like mentioned here, I used Scribus, an open source desktop publishing software (version 1.4 for the first book and version 1.5 for the second Version 1.5 is still in beta and is a bit buggy but has better handling for font embedding, useful for the print replica). I kept it simple since I was mostly interested in checking out how a Print-On-Demand color book would turn out and also test if Reportlab / Python could be used as a suitable replacement for Latex (which I used in my previous books) for the book layout.

The book is nominally in French, however, apart from the title, there is no text in French in the book: The content is basically only photos, along with the geographic coordinates of where it was taken. Here are the product pages on Amazon: US, FR, UK, DE, JP. It is a Print-On-Demand color photo book titled “Croix de Savoie” ( Crosses of Savoie). Recently, I published a new book through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP).

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