{"id":1269,"date":"2014-11-26T12:50:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T12:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2014-11-26T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T12:56:00","slug":"the-florisdesign-guide-to-co-productions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/11\/26\/the-florisdesign-guide-to-co-productions\/","title":{"rendered":"The #FlorisDesign guide to co-productions"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Floris Books, we bring lots of books into the English language market that were originally written in foreign languages. At large annual book fairs, we meet up with foreign language publishing houses to find out more about their books. If we find a book that we think would do well in an English-speaking market, we buy the English language rights to that book, allowing us to publish it in that language. Here’s two of our lovely co-productions:<\/p>\n

\"How<\/a> \"Beskow<\/a><\/p>\n

Floris Books first saw The Yule Tomte and Little Rabbits<\/em><\/a> at Frankfurt Book Fair, where we fell in love with it! Ulf Stark\u2019s story is heart-warming and Eva Eriksson\u2019s illustrations are wonderfully charming; we were sure an English edition would be popular. #FlorisDesign has a particular soft spot for this book because we worked closely with Rab\u00e9n & Sj\u00f6gren, the original Swedish publisher, to produce the final print book. When two different publishers work together to print the same book in more than one language, that is known as a co-production<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Yule<\/a>

This cover charmed the socks off Floris Books! The title Jul I Stora Skogen is roughly translated as Christmas in the Big Forest.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Yule<\/a>

We knew that these illustrations by Eva Eriksson would captivate readers here in the UK.<\/p><\/div>\n

The more copies of a book a publisher prints, the cheaper the unit price of each copy becomes. For a more cost-effective print run, Rab\u00e9n & Sj\u00f6gren and Floris Books decided to co-produce this book i.e. they would print both Rab\u00e9n\u2019s Swedish copies and Floris\u2019s English copies all at once. But how does this work if they contain different words?<\/p>\n

This is where the magic of lithography printing comes in! On lithography presses, books are printed using four colours that layer over one another to create a full colour image. The colours used are Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (CYMK \u2013 the K standing for Key, meaning black).<\/p>\n

\"colour<\/a>

This is what an image looks like when it\u2019s split into cyan, magenta, yellow and black \u2013 the layers all work together to create a full image!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"20\"<\/a>

And here’s the result of all four together!<\/p><\/div>\n

In co-productions, publishers need to make sure that all of the things they want to be unique to their edition of the book \u2013 like the text \u2013 are in black only. All the other features that are common to all editions are in colour. For The Yule Tomte and Little Rabbits<\/em><\/a> we made sure that our English text was all in black only and Rab\u00e9n & Sj\u00f6gren made sure their Swedish text was all in black only.<\/p>\n

\"Yule<\/a>

This PDF shows the parts that we wanted to be printed in black in our edition of the book.<\/p><\/div>\n

At the printers, cyan, magenta and yellow layers were printed first on every single inside page belonging to the two language editions. Then the pages that would belong to the English edition and those that would belong to the Swedish edition were separated. The pages belonging to the English edition were finished off by using the black colour to print the English words. At the same time, the black Swedish text was being printed to finish off the Swedish pages.<\/p>\n

\"Yule<\/a>

In both books, the images are the same in both copies, but the text differs.<\/p><\/div>\n

On the cover, because the text is in colour, both Rab\u00e9n and Floris had to supply CMYK files so that the whole printed cover would be unique to their edition.<\/p>\n

\"Yule<\/a><\/p>\n

In the end we produced a beautiful book that makes us really excited for Christmas, no matter what time of year it is!<\/p>\n

To celebrate Advent and the Christmas season, from Monday 1st<\/sup> December we\u2019ll be sharing exclusive chapters and pictures from The Yule Tomte and the Little Rabbits <\/em><\/a>on the Floris Blog<\/a> \u2013 one chapter a day until Christmas Day! Make sure to check back every morning for an Advent treat.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And if you\u2019d like to find out more about The Yule Tomte and the Little Rabbits <\/em><\/a>\u2013 or maybe add it to your festive bookshelf! \u2013 you can read about it here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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