I am looking around for nice book templates, and I am quite disappointed. I found similar questions on tex.stackexchange (e.g. Good LaTeX template for book about maths), but the book templates usually offered are either "book", "amsbook" or springers book template.
All of them I find rather disappointing, I am looking for something slightly more colorful or more polished.
I guess publishers don't publish latex templates for their book style, but is there anyone who is aware of a book template which is more polished/professional-looking/colorful than the amsbook template?
amsbook, there are a number of "author packages" that modify the basic style for a more distinct look. somewhat less boring styles include graduate studies in math, pure and applied undergraduate texts, mathematical world, and the smaller-format student mathematical library. these are not distributed on ctan, but are readily available from a drop-down list on the ams web pages. – barbara beeton May 07 '13 at 17:41