Good Day,

I have three questions:

1. This current 3 book series - do you want it to correlate with your current book (referring to the attached jpg), or be independent visually? Do you want it to hint at the current book, without keeping every single design element? Please clarify.

2. Could you please list the titles and subject matter of the other two books. This will help guide myself as a designer on flow through and design planning with future books.

3. As to photography. If I as a designer source photos from a stock photography website (i.e. iStockphoto.com), are you fine with paying for the correct size required for the image (through your own account), as well as extended licensing fees? (I know for iStock, it depends on how many "impressions" you have. The price is minimal if it''s used under 500 times, after that, the price goes up - somewhere around the ballpark of $1500 or so per image if my memory serves me.) A pro image shot will cost you more. I just want to make sure you are fine with this kind of investment.

Hi Creative ImPAC

Thanks for your questions.

1. do you want it to correlate with your current book (referring to the attached jpg), or be independent visually?

The jpg is just a mock-up of a book design we partly liked as mentioned in brief. This is not an existing book of mine. The book for design is my first book, so yes, can be indep. visually - start afresh if you like.

2. Could you please list the titles and subject matter of the other two books. This will help guide myself as a designer on flow through and design planning with future books.

Book 2 & 3 will also be on health but a little more advanced each time - titles not finalised but prob. something along lines of
Higher Wisdoms for Higher Health
Enlightened Wisdoms for Enlightened Health

just think Wisdoms of Health as the general feel.

3. As to photography. If I as a designer source photos from a stock photography website (i.e. iStockphoto.com), are you fine with paying for the correct size required for the image (through your own account), as well as extended licensing fees?
Yes, happy to pay anything up to $200 - $300 for right image/photo - as we''ll only be using it a few times at most we should qualify for lower cost photos. If you find a good higher cost one, use it and if we like it, you can let us know how much & we will buy it.

any more ques just let us know
cheers
mark

hi again

just wondering - to insert barcode would you guys need it as an eps / tiff or would a pdf file version be okay? cheers mark

Good Day, Mark

We would need it as a to-scale eps. This includes both the ISBN-13 number on top, not just the actual upc barcode. Please note that in order to read the bar code efficiently, it must be on a white background (either by design, or a white block of colour behind). Just thought I''d let you know in case you''re wondering why a bunch of the designs have this.

Also, if you could add the Canadian / US price listing, that would be helpful. Either that, or we could just put it in temporarily as $0.00 and it can be adjusted later if you have the correct fonts or when you pick your design.

Another reminder about UPC - it has to be at the size you can scan it. It cannot be sent stretched in any way, or it will be unreadable. An outlined EPS file would be best.

Please invite me for a participation payment so I can start to send in designs. 

awesome - cheers

when you say about adding the Canadian / US price listing -  you don''t mean to the barcode, just to the book back cover yes?

Hello Mark,

Sometimes this is added in unicode to the barcode artwork. Other times it''s simply added as a separate element. Either way, it should be included so the designer can determine placement.

Also, do you have the logo of the publisher? I assume the publisher will want their logo (vectorized) on the spine and back of the book?

Hi Creative ImPAC - have just uploaded Logo as an attachment to brief - thanks a million.
Have also checked out the US/Canada $$ etc and as this print run will only Australia, just do as the Aust RRP mentioned.
Thanks
Mark

Hi Mark

Got the new files. Does your publisher have their logo in a eps/vectorized format? If not this will take ages to put into the correct software.

Also, does your publisher have any particular policy on where their logo goes? For example, does the logo image without text go as an icon on the bottom of the spine?

Another question I have to ask is what direction the spine gets read in. Different countries have different preferences. For example, does the title read from bottom to top, or top to bottom? Take a look at some books from Australia around you and let me know.

I''m asking all these inane questions as I''m situated in Canada. I assume RRP is requested retail price?

- Creative ImPAC