by Joe Conlan Readers will have noticed that we often have entries in the monthly ebook cover design awards posts from the auction site 99designs.com. Some of these designs are outstanding, and I’ve wanted to bring you information on how their method of getting...
Welcome to this edition of the e-Book Cover Design Awards. This edition is for submissions during January, 2013. Here’s what we received: 78 covers in the Fiction category 27 covers in the Nonfiction category Award Winners and Listing I’ve added comments...
by Matthew Turner (@Turndog_Million) Matthew, who is a frequent commenter here, is very interested in the ways authors use branding to enhance their marketing strategy. Here he looks at your book cover as an element of that branding. You all know how important a book...
One of the regular tasks of a book cover designer is preparing cover images for a client’s use in promotions, website design, a whole host of things. Today that was one of the things on my to-do list, and I prepared two JPGs, one for print and one for web use....
The move to e-books has brought with it a new challenge for those who do book cover design, amateur and professional. The first challenge, of course, if you’ve been designing book covers for any time, is to understand exactly what an e-book cover really is. Unlike...