SJGR Publishing

“An introduction to Japanese – Syntax, Grammar & Language” has made it to proper print form, and can – as of today – be found on the major Amazon sites, as well as any other site that relies on Ingram for part of their sales catalog.

We’re profiling the title on our Catalogue page, with links to the various sales pages, but if you’re in the US we highly recommend you order this title via The Japan Shop, which is an excellent source for Japanese educational material, located in Florida.

As it turns out, our master for “An introduction to Japanese – Syntax, Grammar & Language” did not have the correct page margins (and that’s why you always generate proof copies).

A new master with correct page margins (2:1 ratio inner:outer margins, rather than the draft 1:1 we had  used) has been generated and sent off for proof printing, and hopefully we’ll be able to inform you of its successful proofing and we can start taking your orders!

At long last we’re finally here – the publication of “An introduction to Japanese – Syntax, Grammar & Language”. The book is currently in proof publication, meaning we’re pretty confident it’s perfect, but you never know what a printing press did to some of the graphics until you see an actual copy.

If we’re happy with what the machines did to the book, expect a post on publication going into full swing within a few days!

After a brief location at a subdomain on nihongoresources.com the SJGR Publishing website now has its own domain! Hopefully the various search engine spiders haven’t indexed the old location yet…

It is convenient to use a “what you see is what you get” (WYSIWYG) application when you want to write a book, and you might even be tempted to use something such as Microsoft Office Word, or Open Office Writer, to write your book. While this seems like a sensible idea, there is a crucial problem with WYSIWYG programs, namely that they only guarantee that what you see is what you get. I might see something completely different if we try to load your document in the same program on our own computers.

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The first title in the SJGR publication catalogue will be “An introduction to Japanese – Syntax, Grammar & Language”, by Michiel Kamermans from Nihongoresources.com. We are in the process of securing the ISBN for this title and arranging the printing run.

Starting with a need to get the book associated with nihongoresources published in a controlled fashion, SJGR Publishing was founded primarily to set up a publishing gateway between digital books and printers-on-demand. Working with Lightning Source for its first publication, SJGR Publishing hopes to be able to report its first publication in the very near future!