Hiram B. Good’s From Stone to Amazon! The Pica Thumpers’ Text Book Bible

A How-To Guide, to format Word documents to create a well presented printed page for CreateSpace and Kindle. Referring to a past era, Mr. Jackson demonstrates that there is nothing new under the sun when it comes to the printed word. Using examples of Microsoft's Word Dialogue boxes to keep text neat and tidy without the need to use HTML, he will demonstrate the ease in reformatting your document from CreateSpace to Kindle. A time-served journeyman, Mr. Jackson has worked his way through from hot-metal to phototypesetting to computerised desk-top publishing systems. From Linotype to IBM to Mac; from paper tape to floppy disks. An experienced keyboard operator in the production of academic books and library novels, as well as national magazines, he could operate keyboards from Linotype's ETAOIN to QWERTY configured boards achieving speeds on the latter at over 15k keystrokes an hour. He was also conversant with CORA 5 the coding for Linotype-Paul's phototypesetters as well as IBM's Typesetting Systems. Becoming an Origination manager for a major company, he was responsible for the origination of four-colour national magazines as well as publications for Hewlett Packard as well as Toshiba whose technical booklets went world-wide in all languages.