By David Kudler While the truism “You can’t tell a book by its cover” holds true in most of our lives, one place where it doesn’t, ironically, is in publishing. Oh, it’s still true — the cover doesn’t necessarily communicate what’s inside (though it should). But...
By Shelley Sturgeon In a couple of weeks, we’ll be publishing our next e-Book Cover Design Awards post which will include submissions we’ve received through the month of May. This will be our 98th e-Book Cover Design Awards post. Our premiere e-Book Cover...
One of the requests I get most often is for help on cover design. That’s why I’ve written so many articles about the challenge of designing your own book cover. But these articles aren’t always that easy to find or ferret out of the archives. So I...
Book covers—you can’t escape them if you publish books, and why would you want to? They bring a book to life for consumers, help to communicate with us about what’s inside. Every month, of course, we get to see dozens and dozens of ebook cover...
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...