Communication Arts —
covering graphic design in all its forms — in our opinion, simply the best place to find design inspiration.
Through them I was able to get assistance on cover and
back cover graphics, copy editing, e-book conversion, distribution, and marketing.
Send a clear note to the blogger containing information about the book you want them to look at, even
include cover graphics, but don't send an unsolicited copy of your book.
The package also includes sales page graphics; FB, twitter and G
+ cover graphics; and banner ads.
Some book types — and especially
ones covering graphics - heavy topics such as photography — don't work well on e-ink readers.
Other than the
book cover graphic, including a relevant stock or personal photo can help draw attention to the post.
«As a busy designer who
creates cover graphics on a daily basis ProductShotPro has introduced a new efficiency to my work - flow.
David Archer's The Long Thaw may just have the best symbolic
cover graphic of any recent book on climate change: a human fingerprint, 90 % submerged in true iceberg fashion, beneath a cloudy sky.
The group — it got its name
from cover graphics on the Grateful Dead album From The Mars Hotel — disbanded after playing six gigs.
(There's a listing of all content on the left - sdie of the editor) Some e-books have ridiculously large
cover graphics as well.
Not only can you use your Author page to
show cover graphics from your books, but readers can follow you on Twitter and almost any other social media, sign up for your newsletter, enter a giveaway, see what you are adding to your Pinterest boards, and view your Goodreads author profile — all from your Facebook page.
Likewise, the PDF version awaits final signoff before Dara spins off a backers version which will include the
same cover graphic the other ebook versions do.
She then inserts a different ISBN into an e-book master and sends that along with the
front cover graphic to me.
You probably know as well as any that it is necessary to drive external traffic to your sales pages in order to maintain visibility, not to mention the increasing importance in creating slick & professional
looking cover graphics, having perfect editing, translation services, etc..
Starting with an MS Word document and a
full cover graphic I first embed the cover in the metadata then generate both.
«It's a very tiny market, but people may know the [characters] from other media, and don't live near a comic store or a bookstore that
covers graphic novels.»
Our ebook package consists of hardware - specific layout and a front cover design (author may
supply cover graphic as a TIFF or JPG at 300 dpi) or we can design a cover for you at no additional charge.
Also on view in the exhibition are 60 vintage copies of The Black Panther, the official Party newspaper with front and
back cover graphics by Emory Douglas.
Book
cover graphic design costs can quickly mount up, but self - published authors can save lots of money on book cover design by providing designers with a rough, actual - sized layout of the text and graphics they want on their book covers.
As an algae biologist I was initially struck by
the cover graphic: a stained glass window made of diatoms, the tiny planktonic creatures whose exquisite outer shells are visible only through the electron microscope.
The mission of teacher leadership in Kentucky is captured in the tag line accompanying
the cover graphic and the definition follows: Teacher leaders transform their classrooms, schools, and profession, activating teacher growth and achieving equity and excellence for students.
One of my pet peeves is
that cover graphics can sometimes be 1 — 2 mb themselves, for an e-book that might contain on 300k in text.
But, in the meantime, just know that creating
the cover graphic for YouTube requires an initially HUGE graphic that is then dynamically cropped to appear correctly on multiple devices.
In their case, however,
the cover graphic specifications are more demanding because YouTube accounts for various platforms, resolutions, and even high - retina displays like the iPad 2 +.
Facebook Terms of Service prevent us from placing our actual URL in
this cover graphic (although if you look around at other Facebook pages, there are plenty of companies doing it anyway), so we simply say «Visit our website for details» and then include a link to our site in the «About» box directly below the Avatar graphic.
(Sidebar: I'm happy to share the name of
my cover graphics guy with you.
You must realize that even an ebook requires the same amount of time spent in editing, re-writing, proofing,
cover graphic design and other tasks as a dead tree book does.
There are so many decisions, from eBook to paperback, book size,
cover graphics, even paper color.
Insider Design Tips For Ebook
Cover Graphics That Sell - Insider Design Tips For Ebook Cover Graphics That Sell
To design a cover, I created
a cover graphic in PicMonkey.
I changed
the cover graphics of my profile and my page.
Publishing to the ebook format, again from the designer's point of view rather than the author's point of view, not only requires one to redo all the layout and design of the book, but simplifying the design anew is like doing your whole layout in Word or producing
a cover graphic in MS Paint.
As you'll see when you click the book
cover graphic, The Nonfiction Book Marketing Plan is divided into three sections: