Using Publishing Software To Create Professional Quality Poetry Collections
Poetry can move our hearts, stir our minds, and evoke strong emotions. Many people can quickly recite their favorite sonnet or poem and poets like Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickenson and T.S. Elliot are among the notable favorites.
The good news is that many of the world’s favorite poets and poetry collections are public domain. The bad news…well, there is no bad news. You can quickly find public domain poetry collections at infoplease, http://www.infoplease.com/spot/pmsites1.html#1
and Archive.org, http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=poetry%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts
Repackaging or reformatting poetry is an excellent way to create products and desktop publication software makes the process simple and straight forward. The best part – the products look like they’ve been produced by a professional mainstream publisher.
Two superior desktop publishing software products include
The Print Shop Pro Publisher 22 Deluxe [DVD]
PrintShopDeluxe by Broderbrund. This software gives you the ability to take any public domain poetry and create a product you can charge for and profit from. Some of the features include photo editing tools so each image whether its public domain or one you bought the rights too, can be customized and made your own. The customization options go even further with more than 800 unique fonts, and the tools to create a professional quality book.
Microsoft Publisher 2007
Microsoft Publisher, is another full scale publishing software product. It is a little more advanced than PrintShopDeluxe however Microsoft offers very thorough tutorials and excellent support if you have questions on how to use the product.
If you have plans to publish a number of books, then Microsoft may be worth the investment. The good news is that they offer a free trial so you can check out the software before you invest. One of the features most significant is that Publisher enables you to create a template which means once you’ve found a format that you like, you can use it for all of your books with very little effort. They also offer a number of professional tools to help you create the perfect poetry book.
