How to make a book presentation

When it comes to promoting and selling your publication, book presentations play a major part. Are you interested in finding more about how to create a well-structured presentation ? Luckily, you landed on the right page. This article helps you understand the process behind making a successful presentation in Flipsnack. Just keep in mind the next steps we’re going to debate and enjoy the process. So, to cut a long story short here are 5 useful tips on how to make a book presentation:

  • Select a book. Decide on what book you want to make a presentation .
  • Collect information. Make a research about the author’s biography, reviews, and other books.
  • Start designing the page layouts. Flipsnack offers a fantastic online editor.
  • Add interactive elements. Integrate video, captions, hyperlinks, and other interactive elements in your design.
  • Download or publish it online. Display your book presentation publicly or private.

I was recently asked to design a book promo in both Indesign and Flipsnack, to show publishers how well Flipsnack works for them. I chose one of my favorite authors, Donald Miller.

About Donald Miller

This book presentation is focused on the work of Donald Miller, who usually writes about his life experience and his struggles, in a friendly way. His stories inspire people to fall in love with life and to live it at the highest level. He is better known for the New York Times Best Sellers: “Blue like Jazz”, “Million Miles in a Thousand Years”, but he’s written many other great books. I encourage you to read them.

His most recent publication is Scary Close, and it is the main focus of my book presentation .

Below you can see what I designed.

Because I like how the project turned out, I thought I should give you some tips on how you can make similar book promos.

Using Flipsnack for a book presentation

Flipsnack is a complex tool for creating brochures, newspapers, magazines, and books. Whether you are a professional designer or a high schooler the process of ‘“ how to make a book presentation”  has never been easier. You just have to select a template or create the presentation from scratch, choose the page layouts, to arrange the text and images on the page, add the photos and make it a flipbook . Then publish it and share it on social media or via email with your wide audience. With the help of Flipsnack you’ll be an expert at designing fabulous academic presentations in no time.

What should a book presentation contain?

There is some important information that every book catalog or book promo should contain.  It should present some interesting info that will entice the reader to buy the book. The content shouldn’t be too long or too short. Here are some ideas of what could be included in a book promo:

  • Book presentation
  • Main characters description
  • Other books
  • Interview with the author

Conclude the presentation with a closing paragraph sharing the most important lessons learned from the book and what you consider the most important message that you drew out from it.

Nowadays visual marketing is very important, so try to turn your book presentation into something beautiful, fascinating, with a design that matches the writer’s style.

How to integrate interactive elements in your design

When you design a publication in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. reserve some white space for the interactive elements. Make interactivity a part of your design, and you’ll be surprised of what a big improvement it will bring to your project.

These text blurbs are great for highlighting quotes, for additional information, or for short descriptions. I used captions in the biography section to add some information about Donald Miller’s photos.

What is so great about captions is that you can use them to bring more color and contrast to your designs. Captions will also help you save space, by not revealing all text at once. This way, your design will have room to breathe.

Readers will love to click on captions to see what they reveal. The caption has that element of surprise, that we all love.     

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For the book presentation I chose a video tag, through which readers can watch an interview with Miller about his new book “Scary Close”. Tags are a great tool for adding videos or images to a design, because they are small and you can place them anywhere on the page. Just like captions, you can use them to de-clutter a design, prevent visual noise, while keeping all the needed information on the page. To catch the readers’ eyes, tags use a subtle blinking effect.

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“Buy This” Button

If you’re showcasing other books of the author you should make it easy for readers to buy them. You can do that by just adding some buy buttons . Insert the Amazon URL, (or any other URL for that matter) and with just one click the user will be able to buy it.

Buy buttons are very easy to use and they are very practical. They can help you sell, and that is the ultimate goal of any book catalog or book presentation.  

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Video Widget

After you read some paragraphs of an interview you probably become curious about how the writer would say those things. You don’t have to search for videos on Youtube, because with the video widget you can have it play right there on your page. You just have to reserve some space in your design for this. You will not regret it.

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This is how you can use Flipsnack to create a digital book or interactive experience for readers, which will make them interested in buying the book. Also if you are searching for a platform with a good reputation to sell your work, Flipsnack is the right place for you. Now you can sell and publish your publication in no time. The first step when setting your work for sale is to connect your Flipsnack account with Stripe. The second step is to set a price for the publication. Usually, the price of a digital magazine varies between $3 – $6, depending on the page number of the publication and then c hoose the right preview pages. Make sure the pages included in your preview edition share enough information, so your readers are attracted to purchase it.

After you set your publication for sale, you can find the statistics in the Stats section in your account. With the help of Flipsnack reaching readers from all over the globe has never been easier! Learn more about how to sell your digital magazines here!

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We often judge a book by its cover, but the way the inside pages look is just as important for giving readers the best reading experience. Here are 5 tips for interior book design:    • Choose a suitable trim size    • Pay attention to front matter and back matter    • Don’t be afraid of margins    • Use a legible font. The most common ones are: Baskerville, Garamond and Sabon    • Use a good font size, usually 11 or 12 and pay attention to word spacing.

2. How do you layout an eBook?

When designing your eBook, keep in mind that there are two different types of layouts to choose from: reflowable or fixed.The reflowable one means that you get responsive texts and images and it’s great for most devices. A fixed layout on the other hand is the one you need for more graphic-heavy publications like cookbooks or illustrated children’s books. This type of layout locks your content in place like a PDF and allows for adding interactive elements.

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Here are the most common 5 ebook formats:    • PDF    • Epub    • Mobi    • IBA    • AZW and AZW3

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When using an online flipbook it feels like if you are viewing a printed document, catalog or a book. Its pages rustle when you flip through them and have characteristic shadows and reflections. What distinguishes an online flipbook from a physical document is the possibility of adding interactive elements to it. With Publuu, you can enhance your flip html5 e-book, e-magazine or e-catalog with photo galleries, videos, links or audio files, added as animated hotspots.

Your personalized digital flipbook will combine the world of print and cutting-edge technology, giving your audience a unique product they will keep coming back to on a regular basis.

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The thing that makes online flip book great is that you can easily modify its look, adjusting it to the content you publish there. It’s you who decides about the color of the background and the look of its menu. To make your flipbook even more personalized, you can add your logotype, so that your clients will be reminded of your brand every time they look at your file.

Once your online flipbook is ready, you need to share it. We have great news for you: sharing an online flipbook couldn’t be easier! You can do it in many ways: embed it on your website so that it becomes an interactive part of it, email it as a link or share it on social media. Your flipbooks will always keep their original look and will smoothly adapt to all devices. They will always display in the right way. They don’t require any additional plug-ins or complicated installations; you don’t need to download anything to use them. Just click the link and you can view all their content online!

Worried that you don’t know if your digital flipbook will be opened? Fear not! You can easily track your html5 online flipbooks so that you know how many times each of them was opened, how much time your readers spent on viewing it and how it was used. You can also set up email notifications so that you know exactly when your interactive PDF was clicked on.

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Advantages of pdf flipbooks are countless: they are very innovative, sleek, practical and easy to use. But for you it really means one thing: your online flipbook will make you stand out from the crowd and will make the WOW effect. And that is the most important thing you want today!

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You probably won’t be surprised to hear that more and more often pdf flipbooks are used in place of conventional PDFs. Digital flipbook can become your interactive report, presentation, e-magazine or e-book. Sharing and receiving online flipbooks is really a piece of cake. Have a look at the ways to do it:

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You can easily embed your HTML5 flipbook on your website to make it more interactive and fun. You will attract the attention of your audience and provide them with comfortable experience of viewing your interactive PDFs online.

Thanks to Publuu.com, flipbook maker it’s you who decides how your clients will access the documents you create. Our platform gives you full control over how your online flipbooks look like on the website and how they will be displayed on the devices used by your readers. You can present your PDFs on your website in three different ways. Let us introduce you to all of them:

You can embed your PDF as a flipbook with a transparent background. Your visitors will see no other options, just arrows they can use to turn the pages, so nothing will distract their attention from your content. It will look like an interactive part of your website just like the example below. Play with it – click on the arrows to turn the pages and test it for yourself.

With Publuu you can also embed your flipbook as an iframe in form of a sleek player. Your visitors will see the background and some additional options they could use. They will be able to easily switch to the full screen mode and use all the features like share, print, page thumbnails or PDF download. Check out the example below.

Or maybe you are keen to have a smart button that your clients can click to open your PDF in a separate tab or in a pop-up window? This is another great option offered by Publuu.com. You can easily customize the appearance and size of the button and publish it on your website. Click on the cover below and see how it works.

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You can share your HTML5 flipbooks using direct links. It will allow you to quickly send to your recipients even very heavy files, for example in an email. It’s enough to click a link and an online flipbook will immediately appear on the screen. Your readers will never have to download files to their hard drives, and you will be sure that your interactive PDFs are always displayed correctly on each device.

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Facebook, Twitter, Instagram – this is where you find your clients and build relationships with them! An HTML5 flipbook is a natural here. You can easily share it and it can be reshared by your audience, automatically increasing your chances of acquiring new customers for free!

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HTML5 flipbooks give you an option of sharing links to their specific pages, allowing you to draw your recipients’ attention to the content you want them to look at in the first place. This is a big advantage in comparison to the usual PDF file. After clicking the link, the indicated page will be displayed automatically, with the possibility of viewing the rest of the content.

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You can also add your HTML5 flipbook to your email signature. Your clients will have easy access to it every time they receive a message from you!

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Do you sell online? E-catalogs in the form of online flipbooks created with Publuu – flipbook maker will show your products and services in a professional and attractive way. Add your strongest pictures and videos to them and you will improve the quality of online shopping for all your clients. Thanks to direct links to product pages, your customers will be able to complete their purchases easily and with pleasure!

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Do you promote your business online? Digital brochures and sales materials lay at the very heart of every marketing campaign. Prepare them using Publuu and you will surprise your clients with their stunning look and the smooth way they open. Extensive monitoring options will allow you to track all views and clicks for each of your online flipbook in the real time!

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Do you need a professional online presentation or a good portfolio? Each of these documents should always look sleek and be immediately available to your clients. Interactive html5 flipbooks are perfect for this purpose. They will satisfy even the most demanding recipients. Additionally, thanks to the email notification function, you will always know when your presentation has been opened.

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Do you work in education? Sharing school materials with students is a big challenge for teachers all over the world. Easy to use and distribute digital flipbooks, combined with a possibility of adding to them attractive photos, videos, audio files and links to external sources of knowledge, are an ideal solution to this problem. Learning with flipbooks is a fantastic, colorful and interactive adventure!

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At Publuu, we come up with the best solutions, so that you can easily create interactive PDFs by converting them to HTML5 flipbooks. Prepared this way, they will become sleek and stunning in no time. Check out why we are trusted by so many clients and create your online flipbook with Publuu flipbook maker today!

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To create a flipbook, you need to prepare a PDF file with your content, then create a free account at Publuu and upload a file. Our Online Flipbook Maker will convert it into a fantastic flipbook that you can easily customize with your branding, share anywhere on the web, and track its real-time performance.

What is the difference between a PDF and a flipbook?

PDFs still remain one of the most popular filetypes, however, they lack a lot of functions a flipbook can offer. A digital flipbook created with our Flipbook Maker has a realistic page-flipping effect, can be easily shared and enriched by plenty of interactive elements, such as videos or GIFs, while a static PDF can’t. What is more, our analytical tool allows you to track the real-time performance of a flipbook, while you just can’t do the same with a simple PDF.

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You can create your first stunning flipbook catalog, magazine, and brochure during the free trial that Publuu offers and try all of the great functions, such as statistics, tracking links, lead generation tool and much more.

How many pages can a digital flipbook have?

Publuu allows you to create a digital flipbook with an unlimited number of pages - each one with the page-flipping effects, sounds, and reflections that resemble a real publication.

What materials do you need to make a flipbook with Publuu?

Actually, all you need is a simple PDF file, nothing more – after uploading it to Publuu, it will be automatically converted to a ready-to-use online flipbook.

Will you display any ads in my flipbook?

No, there will never be any ads in your flipbook distracting your recipients from your content.

How many flipbooks can I host at Publuu at the same time?

It depends on the pricing plan you choose: from 10 in the Basic Plan to even 500 in Premium Plan. Go to Prices and select the plan that suits your needs.

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Letter from Charles Darwin to John Murray, his publisher, dated 31 March 1859

Contents of Charles Darwin’s entire personal library revealed for first time

300-page catalogue details thousands of books, journals, pamphlets and articles in naturalist’s library

Details of Charles Darwin’s vast personal library, from a paper on epileptic guinea pigs to the Elizabeth Gaskell novel he adored, are being published in their entirety for the first time.

The project has involved nearly two decades of painstaking, detective-like work to track down the thousands of books, journals, pamphlets and articles in the naturalist’s library.

John van Wyhe , the academic who has led the “overwhelming” endeavour, said it showed the extraordinary extent of Darwin’s research into the work of others.

“It also shows how insanely eclectic Darwin was,” Van Wyhe said. “There is this vast sea of things which might be an American or German news clipping about a duck or invasive grasshoppers. That’s been the fun part, not the formal books but the other things … all of which pool together to make the theories and publications we all know.”

The 300-page catalogue published by Darwin Online details 7,400 titles across 13,000 items including journals, pamphlets and reviews.

Some of the books date back to Darwin’s school days such as Oliver Goldsmith’s A history of England (1821), which he won as a prize, or his headmaster’s textbook on ancient geography.

Researchers have at times used auction records to piece together stories.

For example, an auction sales record reveals that Darwin had a copy of an 1826 article by the ornithologist John James Audubon, “Account of the habits of the Turkey Buzzard (Vultura aura), particularly with the view of exploding the opinion generally entertained of its extraordinary power of smelling ”.

In 2019, a copy of Elizabeth Gaskell’s 1880 novel Wives and Daughters appeared at auction. A note in it records: “This book was a great favourite of Charles Darwin’s and the last book to be read aloud to him.”

Previous lists of what was in Darwin’s library only covered around 15% what was actually in it, said van Wyhe.

The new list shows Darwin had volumes on a dizzying array of subjects including biology, geology, philosophy, psychology, religion, farming, art, history and travel.

More than half the works are in English and the rest in languages including German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Danish.

One of the items is a German periodical containing the first known photograph of bacteria.

Other papers in the library have titles such as “The anatomy of a four-legged chicken”, “Epileptic guinea-pigs” and “The hateful or Colorado grasshopper”.

The project includes a virtual reconstruction of the library, with 9,300 links to copies of works available for free.

No one, his supporters say, has influenced our knowledge of the natural world more than Darwin.

His 1859 masterwork, On the Origin of Species, set down the theory that explains how life on Earth has evolved. It is seen as a book that changed the world, one that mattered then and matters now .

Van Wyhe, a historian of science at the University of Singapore and the director of Darwin Online, said it all showed that Darwin was “not an isolated figure working alone but an expert of his time building on the sophisticated science and studies and other knowledge of thousands of people.

“The size and range of works in the library makes manifest the extraordinary extent of Darwin’s research into the work of others.”

The library publication coincides with what would have been Darwin’s 215th birthday on 12 February.

Reams of material has been written about Darwin but this is the first time his library has been itemised in its entirety.

Van Wyhe said: “Now that we’ve done this I wonder ‘why wasn’t this done many years ago’? Darwin is someone who has been written about more than most historical figures… there are jokes about it, we call it the Darwin industry.”

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The Complete Library of Charles Darwin revealed

Charles Darwin -- arguably the most influential man of science in history, accumulated a vast personal library throughout his working life. Until now, 85 per cent of its contents were unknown or unpublished.

This year, coinciding with Darwin's 215th birthday, The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online , the scholarly project helmed by Dr John van Wyhe at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Department of Biological Sciences, has released an online 300-page catalogue detailing Darwin's complete personal library, with 7,400 titles across 13,000 volumes and items including books, pamphlets and journals. Previous lists only had 15 per cent of his whole collection. Darwin's library has also been virtually re-assembled with 9,300 links to copies of the works freely available online.

"This unprecedentedly detailed view of Darwin's complete library allows one to appreciate more than ever that he was not an isolated figure working alone but an expert of his time building on the sophisticated science and studies and other knowledge of thousands of people. Indeed, the size and range of works in the library makes manifest the extraordinary extent of Darwin's research into the work of others," said Dr van Wyhe.

Discovering Darwin's complete library

After his death in 1882, much of Darwin's library was preserved and catalogued, but many other items were dispersed or lost, and details of the vast majority of the contents have never been published until now. For many years, scholars have referred to Darwin's library as containing 1,480 books, based on those that survive in the two main collections, the University of Cambridge and Down House.

Over 18 years the Darwin Online project has identified thousands of Darwin's obscure references in his own catalogues and lists of items such as pamphlets and journals that were originally in his library. Each reference required its own detective story to discover the publications that Darwin had hurriedly recorded. In addition, missing details such as author, date or the source of clippings in thousands of records from older catalogues have been identified for the first time.

A major source of information that helped to reveal the original contents is the 426-page handwritten "Catalogue of the Library of Charles Darwin," compiled from 1875. Painstaking comparison of its abbreviated entries revealed 440 unknown titles that were originally in the library. An inventory of his home made after his death recorded 2,065 bound books and an unknown number of unbound volumes and pamphlets. In the drawing room, 133 titles and 289 volumes of mostly unscientific literature were recorded. Amazingly, the legacy duty valuer estimated that the "Scientific Library that is books relating to Science" was worth only 30 pounds and 12 shillings [about £2,000 today] Indeed, all the books were valued at only66 pounds and 10 shillings [about £4,400 today]. Today any book that belonged to Darwin is worth a great deal to collectors.

Other sources of information that helped to build Darwin's complete library were lists of pamphlets, Darwin's reading notebooks, Emma Darwin's diaries, the Catalogue of books given to the Cambridge Botany School in 1908 and the 30 volumes of the Darwin Correspondence . Items that still exist but were never included in the lists of Darwin's library include his unbound materials at Cambridge University Library, books now in other institutional collections, private collections and books sold at auctions over the past 130 years. Combining these and many other sources of evidence allowed Darwin's library to be reconstructed.

For example, Darwin's copy of an 1826 article by the ornithologist John James Audubon: 'Account of the habits of the Turkey Buzzard ( Vultura aura ), particularly with the view of exploding the opinion generally entertained of its extraordinary power of smelling' was sold in 1975. Darwin had investigated this point during the voyage of the Beagle and recorded reading a critic of Audubon in the lost G alapagos notebook . In 2019, a copy of Elizabeth Gaskell's 1880 novel Wives and daughters appeared at auction. A note in it records: "This book was a great favourite of Charles Darwin's and the last book to be read aloud to him."

Understanding Darwin's library

Most of the works in Darwin's library are, unsurprisingly, on scientific subjects, especially biology and geology. Yet, the library also included works on farming, animal breeding and behaviour, geographical distribution, philosophy, psychology, religion, and other topics that interested Darwin, such as art, history, travel and language. Most of the works are in English, but almost half are in other languages, especially German, French and Italian as well as Dutch, Danish, Spanish, Swedish and Latin.

Some of the hundreds of books not previously known to be in Darwin's library include Sun Pictures , a 1872 coffee table book showcasing photographs of artworks. Another book that the we did not know that the Darwins purchased was a copy of the popular science book on gorillas that was all the rage just after Origin of species was published: Paul Du Chaillu's Explorations and adventures in equatorial Africa . Of the thousands of shorter items were also found in Darwin's library, such as an issue of a German scientific periodical sent to him in 1877 that contained the first published photographs of bacteria and another article amusingly entitled The hateful or Colorado grasshopper . In his complete library, Darwin's eclectic sources are there for all to see.

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Three shortlisted candidates for the role of University Library visited Brock this week to deliver public presentations and meet with various stakeholder groups on campus.

As required by the  Policy on the Appointment of Academic Administrators , the Provost is inviting comments from the Brock community on the candidate presentations. The presentations and related documents are hosted on SharePoint and require a Brock ID to log in.

The candidates include:

Nicole Nolan (Feb. 12)

  • Link to public presentation

Alan Karass (Feb. 13)

Kim Nayyer (Feb. 14)

Comments on the presentations are welcome by email to  [email protected] until Friday, March 1 at 5 p.m.

Any questions or comments about the search process can be sent to  [email protected]

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