Tom McCluskey

Part of my bookshelf

Well, I just finished up an internship at a great little Portland publishing company called Ink & Paper. While I was there, I worked primarily with Three Muses Press, one of their imprints, but I also had the opportunity to contribute a couple of articles to the Ink & Paper blog. As the focus of my internship was most on the tech side of publishing, the blog articles that I wrote were about new technology and publishing. In particular, I got to summarize a bunch of the research I had been doing into ebooks, and particularly ebook design.

Everyone at Ink & Paper is awesome, so it should come as no surprise that they have no problems with me posting the articles here as well as on their blog (though the second part of the design article will have to wait until they’ve published it on their blog). So, without further ado, here are some of my thoughts on designing ebooks. Check ‘em out after the break.

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Well, it’s high time to actually put this out there. Construction will be ongoing, and I’m sure many things will change dramatically here, but better that than to never get around to going live at all.

So a bit about me: I’m a tall ship sailor, though at this point I haven’t worked in the industry for a couple of years (though people still keep calling me with job offers). I’m also a recently transplant to Portland, Oregon, where I’m a student in PSU’s Masters in Publishing program. While I’m here, I want to study where publishing, writing, and storytelling is going and how tech, and particularly the internet, is shaping it. So hit me up with any resources that you know about.

I’m also a reader, gamer, fencer, occasional photographer, and bike commuter, and I’ve done more than my share of traveling. Life’s been good.