If your book cover doesn't look professional, or the story didn't hook them in the first few pages, then you're asking them to review a book they don't want to read.
If your book cover lists a price, or promises something not included in the book (such as «Free CD included»), they'll reject it.
If book cover design isn't your area of expertise you should hire a graphic artist to help with your cover.
DONE —
if your book cover, reviews and description are good enough, you will «stick» at a certain rank on Amazon.
The proportions are different from the standard ebook covers, and
if the book cover is not done over entirely — placing and tweaking images and text — it will end up looking like this!
If your book cover has a white background, it may disappear on retailers» white screens.
If your book cover wasn't the first choice.
If your book cover doesn't draw the reader, then that perfect blurb and fantastic story is all for naught.
If your book cover does not inspire confidence, you should hire a professional to design a proper book cover.
If it has zero reviews and the authors aren't giving away review copies or soliciting reviewers;
if the book cover sucks; if the description is poor; if the first few pages have weak beginnings or spelling or grammatical errors — and I'd guess that fully 75 % of self - published ebooks have these problems — then of course the books will sink and visibility will be an issue.
What's more,
if the book cover looks amateurish, we'll assume that the contents inside are amateurish, too.
I've learned that
if your book cover is (say) 6 ″ x9 ″, you'll do well to purchase the image in 9 ″ x12 ″ size, which allows for judicious manipulation without running out of image at the edges.
But, even
if the book cover for the physical book itself is white, that doesn't mean your Amazon cover has to be.
You can stand out in a crowded market, but only
if your book cover is unique and catchy.
If book cover artwork and / or project work has been completed, and final files for the author have not been created, Elegant Book Design will invoice the author for the balance of the project.
If the book cover is good and it has a 3 star average and a good description, you might be fine.
You can string together the most insightful, lyrical, delicious words ever connected in the human lexicon, but
if your book cover looks like Photoshop amateur hour, no one will ever pick it up.
Regardless of how great your story may be, no one will give your book a chance
if your book cover doesn't shine and your interior design distracts from the text.
I feel that
if a book cover is complete clown - shoes, then either the author doesn't realize it, or they do realize it and don't care enough to do anything about it.
This is unfortunate because indie authors already have a tough time figuring out what makes a «Good Cover» — and
if book cover contests like this give prizes to fairly ordinary or even pretty ugly book covers, the bar will not be raised.
Don't try to cut costs on design so you'll have a bigger book marketing budget later you plan to use for advertising — ads will fail
if the book cover is ugly.
It'd be great
if the book covered ways to draw more customers to one's own web commerce site.
A potential purchaser might wonder
if the book covers subject matter beyond portraits.
Not exact matches
If you
book a tenant through our site and in two months he stops paying rent or wrecks the property on the way out, you're
covered by us.
To mark the
book's release, Sutton gave a lengthy interview to New York Magazine's Jessica Pressler, which
covers lots of ground (including great,
if weird, tricks to prevent nastiness from getting under your skin).
They say you shouldn't judge a
book by its front
cover, but
if you front
cover is tacky and badly designed, journalists are unlikely to make it any further.
If you have specific questions you'd like to answer about the material
covered in a
book, you're likely to dive in with more enthusiasm (and pleasure), contends Page19.
If implemented, these would increase maximum prison sentences to 14 years (from five) and introduce a new offence for keeping false
books and records to
cover up bribery.
And
if you want to go deeper, check out my favorite money
books or sign - up for the Millennial Money course, where we
cover literally everything you need to know about money.
Ultimately,
if your
cover is not eye - catching and your title is not intriguing, people will pass by your
book without so much as a second glance.
«
If Deadpool's campaign was an off - the - wall, over-the-top cross-platform marketing bonanza, Batman v Superman's is a by - the -
book,
cover - all - bases exercise that feels a little... rote,» observes a recent story in Wired.
If you purchase shares of our common stock in this offering, you will experience immediate and substantial dilution of $ in the net tangible
book value per share, assuming an initial public offering price of $ per share (the midpoint of the price range set forth on the front
cover of this prospectus).
Any bookstore can also order it
if you give them the full title: «Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World» — there are more than 60 Guerrilla Marketing
books that
cover other aspects of business and have nothing to do with what we've been talking about.
Any bookstore can also order it
if you give them the full title: «Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green» — there are more than 60 Guerrilla Marketing
books that
cover other aspects of business and have nothing to do with what we've been talking about.
Significantly expand the scope of Canadian prosecutorial jurisdiction to
cover activities of Canadians (including officers and directors) and Canadian corporations, even
if all the activities related to the alleged bribery take place or the falsification of
books and records occurs outside Canada, thereby displacing the previous requirement that there be a «real and substantial link» between the offence and Canada.
Therefore,
if you purchase our common stock in this offering, you will incur an immediate dilution of $ in net tangible
book value per share from the price you paid, based on an assumed initial public offering price of $ per share (the midpoint of the price range set forth on the
cover of this prospectus).
The hypothesis that is inversely proportional to the evidence presented is the hypothesis that can be tested by repeatable experiments.in other words
if you read a
book cover to
cover you can categorically deny that eastern mysticism is all powerful and the philosophies have mathematical inference to the derivative conclusion that one can not mistakenly ignore.
My simple question to you is this: have you ever read the
Book of Mormon,
cover to
cover, pondered its teachings, and then asked God to know
if it is true?
But no one
book can
cover everything, and perhaps the writer will readily be excused
if he, a single author, does not try to say everything that is to be said on any one subject, or even everything that is in his own mind!
But
if there were, it would be mac and cheese because it matches the
book cover and... mmmm... mac and cheese.)
I know you haven't read this
book yet, but
if you have read some of my other
books and want to write a line or two about these
books and how they looked, I will include several of these endorsements on the inside of this
book, and randomly pick one of them to go on the front
cover.
It is probably the ugliest
book cover I have ever designed, but
if you compare it with the
cover from John Piper's
book on the right, you'll see why I created the
cover as I did.
Because for me,
if you've read the
book, she's
covering her face in embarrassment, not sadness.
If more American's read the bible and then read a few other religious
books, they would see the copious amount of plagiarism that fills the Christian Holy Bible from
cover to
cover.
For example
if exorcism was illegal and you caught me beating my neighbor with a copy of the Egyptian
book of the dead while
covering them in chicken blood I could always get away with it under the excuse that it was an adult adventure, a skin care regime, performance art or any number of things.
If you are trying to decide whether or not to buy the
book, he says on the back
cover that fully 100 percent of the proceeds from this
book will be given to international Christian organizations.
If you are interested in using my images for these purposes (advertising, marketing, merchandise,
books, magazine
covers, etc.) or any other purpose which does not fit into any of the above categories, please contact me with details and I will quote a price based on your intended specific use (haywardart (at) gmail.com).
(And
if you think Christians have cornered the market on bad design, you should check out the Lousy
Book Covers blog, which features bad design from all genres of the publishing industry.)
I haven't ever been here before and I don't know
if I'll be here again and so I'm just going to let myself be happy and dorky about the fact that my name is on the
cover of a
book and I wrote that
book and I love that
book so much and I'm excited about people actually reading it.
If we want to continue to enjoy your blog, podcasts,
books and other things you write, it is only fair that we help you
cover your costs so you do not have to try to
cover the costs from your earnings from your day job.