Well, if you look
at professional book covers, you don't see «by.»
In this article, we take a closer look
at professional book cover design.
Not exact matches
Finkel wrote the
book at the low point in his
professional career, after he was fired for building his latest New York Times Magazine
cover story, «Is Youssouf Malé A Slave?
Professional book cover designer
at your service!
And when readers pick up a
book, they look
at the back
cover to see what
professionals (rather than your friend John or cousin Mary) say.
Part of the stigma grew from the fact that vanity - published
books were not vetted by the gatekeepers
at a publishing house — whether large or small — and therefore did not benefit from editing,
professional cover design, typesetting, and marketing.
If your
book looks like an indie
book and you can't tell because you never hold it up beside a
professional cover in the same genre, and understand that most
professional bestseller
covers tend to have four or five print elements, then the gun just isn't pointed
at that toe, it's tied to it.
Like all the biggest
book promotion sites, they do have some requirements before they'll accept you: your
book must be free or discounted by
at least 50 %, it must have a good looking and
professional cover, and it must also be
at least 150 pages (although children's
books can be just 32 pages).
You'll work one - on - one with a
professional cover designer who will be committed to creating a
cover that compliments your written work and gives your
book its best shot
at success in today's competitive market.
To learn how Elegant
Book Design can help you create a professional, creative book cover design, please take a look at the topics be
Book Design can help you create a
professional, creative
book cover design, please take a look at the topics be
book cover design, please take a look
at the topics below.
Cover Design: the fine art of making your cover look good, with type elements and art elements in the right places, and the proper signals being given off to let the reader know, at least subconciously, that they will like this book and it is a professional produc
Cover Design: the fine art of making your
cover look good, with type elements and art elements in the right places, and the proper signals being given off to let the reader know, at least subconciously, that they will like this book and it is a professional produc
cover look good, with type elements and art elements in the right places, and the proper signals being given off to let the reader know,
at least subconciously, that they will like this
book and it is a
professional production.
To have a chance to be featured
at Buck
Books, your
book must be priced
at 99 cents or less during your promotion, its listing on Kindle must show that it is
at least 60 pages in length, you must have
at least 10 reviews with an average rating of 3.8 stars or higher, your
book description must be well - written and free of any major spelling or grammatical errors, and your
book cover must be designed by a non-Fiverr
professional designer or
book cover design service.
You will learn not the hows and the whys involved in designing
professional book covers that look great on any shelf —
at home or
at the bookstore — and in the iBook and Kindle stores.
Professional fonts cost anywhere from $ 10 - $ 50 and I like to buy
at least one new font for every
book cover (this cost is included in my pricing).
The
cover is critical to marketing your
book, so we suggest hiring a
professional, but
at a reasonable rate.
I understand budgets all to well, but if your serious and believe in your
book, then you'll come to value why you need
at least, a
professional book cover design.
To see eye - catching examples of affordable,
professional cover designs, take a look
at book cover art the experts
at Self - Publishing Relief have come up with!
Don't try to depict a scene from your
book on the
cover, and don't have too much detail; this will just result in a crowded, busy
cover, and will not look
at all
professional.
If money is a challenge —
at least get your
book edited; have a
professional cover designer create your
cover; get the interior layed - out by someone who does interiors — you will spend a few thousand dollars if you do it RIGHT and it will be money well spent... then you can go the cheap route: have your interior designer load up to Create Space —
at least you've get the visuals of a solid
book on your side and the content solid — you've got mammoth Amazon there ready to do the POD print and you can buy the
book for most likely less than $ 3 a copy (less than the pay - to - publish model — trust me here).
Be that as it may (and don't start me down the Snooki path), presumably the literary agents were gatekeepers of quality, who then passed their clients» wares to publishers, who further thinned the herd, resulting in a clumsy industry algorithm that spat out
books at the opposite end of the sausage machine — and the presumption was those
books were competently written, would be of interest to someone, and were executed in a superior fashion;
professional cover designers drew up art,
professional editors checked grammar and punctuation and spelling, etc..
This section
covers planning your story, finishing your
book in a month, hiring
professional editors (or working with editors
at no cost, which is possible only if you are married to one!)
Sure, you can find some really
professional book cover designers there but look
at their charges,
at that range from $ 299 - $ 1,199.
In order for us to guarantee that
at least two bookstores / retailers will test your
book, we may recommend that you allow our
professional designers to make your
book cover more acceptable to retailers
at no extra cost.
In order for us to guarantee that
at least two libraries will test your
book, we may recommend that you allow our
professional designers to make your
book cover more acceptable to retailers
at no extra cost.
You can get a unique,
professional book cover designed for as low as Rs. 1500, when you publish
at Pothi.com.
The
professional designers
at Self - Publishing Relief can help you create the perfect custom
book cover for your novel.
You're courting your potential readers, so entice them to look closer
at your
book with an outstanding,
professional eBook
cover.
With the cost of our most popular publishing package coming in
at $ 999, I wouldn't necessarily say we were «less expensive» (although when you compare that to the average cost of independently publishing your
book yourself with the cost of a
professional book designer,
cover designer, and off - set print - run, we certainly are).
The fonts are crap Times New Roman, the formatting is all wrong, there is no frontispiece or
professional table of contents, the
covers are poor quality, made with fuzzy images
at far too low a resolution - all hallmarks of someone not taking their time or researching how a good
book looks.
Instead of creating my own
book covers I work with a
professional cover designer which lets me stick to what I'm best
at, writing and marketing.
Karl Bunker presents A
cover for your self - published
book posted
at The Indie Author, saying, «Even if you hire a
professional designer to create a
cover for your
book, you should still educate yourself as much as possible about what makes a good (and bad)
book cover.
We'll then look
at why you should consider
professional book cover design before revealing how you can find and collaborate with your ideal designer.
You don't need to have an extensive edit if the
book is for your own purposes, you do not need to have a
professional cover if you are aiming the
book at only your family.
I was reading a piece
at IndieReader recently where Smashwords founder Mark Coker, speaking on the subject of
covers, remarked, «In addition to promising what a
book will deliver, the [
cover] image also promises (or fails to promise) that the author is a
professional, and that the
book will honor the reader's time.»
You only have to look
at the success of «The Martian'to see that people don't care about the publishing house, they care about the story, and how it's presented (professionally edited,
professional book cover, etc..)
After graduating summa cum laude from Carleton College with a B.A. in English (which included a life - changing year abroad
at Durham University in the U.K.), she began her career as a copywriter and marketing assistant
at Scott, Foresman and Company, where she wrote back
cover copy and press releases for over 100
professional and trade
books.
Professional book covers at a fraction of the cost.
If you don't think a
professional book cover designer is essential to your project, consider this: readers, retailers, and reviewers glance
at a
book for only a few seconds before they make a choice.
I can't guarantee you the same success, but starting off with an attractive,
professional cover will
at the very least give you a leg up on
books with less thoughtful or savvy authors.
In order for a
book to be included it must have an Amazon rating of 3.5 or higher with
at least 5 customer reviews and a
professional book cover.
Randy Stapilus presents Judging a
Book by Its Cover posted at BookWorks, saying, «Even if you engage a professional to design the cover of your book, you still need to be able to evaluate whether that cover will work for
Book by Its
Cover posted at BookWorks, saying, «Even if you engage a professional to design the cover of your book, you still need to be able to evaluate whether that cover will work for
Cover posted
at BookWorks, saying, «Even if you engage a
professional to design the
cover of your book, you still need to be able to evaluate whether that cover will work for
cover of your
book, you still need to be able to evaluate whether that cover will work for
book, you still need to be able to evaluate whether that
cover will work for
cover will work for you.
So, if you want a good shot
at making a living and standing out from the crowd, use
professionals:
cover designers, editors, formatters, they are very important, and will help make sure your
book is as
professional as can be.
Professional service provider members (editors,
cover designers, coaches, marketers and more) are
at the ready to help you ace your
book and succeed in the marketplace.
They have teams of
professionals — editors, designers, marketers, salespeople — working together to leverage huge distribution networks for massive catalogs of
book merchandise produced to be wholesaled
at 50 % off
cover price and still make money.
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