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The first step is to prepare your book for publication

What needs doing
Preparing for Publication
Proof-reader's Marks
Copy-editing
Preparing an index
Compiling a table of contents
Legal checks
Clearing Copyright
Copyright permissions
Copyright briefing
Your copyright
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What needs doing a checklist of the tasks to be carried out before your book is put into production. 
Preparing for Publication describes all the stages a book goes through on its way to publication in a publishing house and provides useful background for self-publishers.
Proof-reader's Marks tells you how they are used and provides lists of the most common manual and electronic marks.
Copy-editing our service which makes sure that your manuscript is ready to go to the printers and free of all spelling and grammatical mistakes.
Preparing an index  guidelines on how to set about preparing an index for your book, including  Making an Index using Word®
Compiling a table of contents not only looks professional but lets you jump to parts of your document, even if it is composed of many word-document files.
Legal checks a rundown of picture research, permissions and libel - and how we can help.
Clearing Copyright gives you specific guidelines for finding out who controls copyright in pictures and text, and how to set about getting permission to use the material.
Your copyright an overview of your copyright, how you can protect it, the public domain and 'fair use'.
Permissions & model release  a sample model release which can be used to get permission to use photographs of people
ISBN registration what is an International Standard Book Number?
Glossary  and acronyms of printing and publishing terms and abbreviations, which may be useful if there are words used in the process which you have not encountered before.
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