To Embed an Index is a popular option when it comes to indexing. What are the advantages, and disadvantages of using that type of indexing? You want to get the index to the book that you are working on done relatively quickly. You also want to be able to reuse the index if you Read more…
There are some publishers or authors who would immediately say “Yes!” to this question. They feel that any person, place, thing or idea that is mentioned in a book belongs in the index. If you are an author, editor or publisher, here are a few examples of paragraphs from a Read more…
If you’re an author, I’m sure you’ve considered self-publishing your book as an eBook. You’ve probably read some pretty inspiring success stories about authors who have sold a substantial number of books on the Web. And even those who haven’t sold very many at least were able to get them Read more…
At BIM we are used to indexing lots of pages every month. In fact, we usual index over 100,000 pages of content each year. However, when we received a phone call asking us to create an index for a single project that was over 10,000 pages we knew that we Read more…
Language is very complex, so indexes prepared by computer or text searches are seriously lacking when compared to those written by a professional human indexer. The rest of this article points out some of the differences you’ll see between automatic indexes or searches and human-prepared ones. Also, text searches will Read more…