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Prepare your Manuscript 
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A Brief History

Welcome to Custom Publishing

What Will My Book Cost?

Camera-Ready Manuscript vs. Electronically Prepared Manuscript

Developing Your Camera-Ready Manuscript

   Front Matter
Table of Contents
Preface
Illustrations
Photographs
Tables
Design
Copy
Submission
 Preparing Your Manuscript on Disk
   Software and disks
Naming Files
Paper
Number of copies
Typing Instructions
Quotations and Extracts
Cross-references
Footnotes
Tables
Pagination
Special Characters/Symbols
Double-column material
Foreign Language, Math, and Chemistry Texts
Optional Coding
  Covers

Copyrights and Permissions

   What Copyright Signifies
Copyright on Written Work
Copyright on Illustrative Work
Who Holds Copyright
Duration of Copyright Trademarks
Libel
Material Requiring Permission
Text
Expressive Works
Unpublished Material
Collections of facts: charts, tables, and other line art
Pictures
Translations
Internet/World Wide Web/Screen Shots
Fair Use
Limitations
Cumulative word counts
Expressive Works
Quotations within quotations
Public Domain
Clearing Permissions
General
Forms
Timing
Adaptation
  The Custom Publishing Author Guidelines are also available in PDF format here.

To view the Acrobat version you must first download and install Acrobat Reader (which is free). Click on the "Get Acrobat" icon to go to Adobe's site. Then follow the Download and Installation instructions there. Once you have installed Acrobat Reader, simply click on the desired link.



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