Good book cover design isn't a guessing game.
Most people in the publishing industry believe that
a good book cover design is a book's number one marketing tool.
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Good book cover design takes someone who knows publishing standards and traditions.
A good book cover design that intrigues customers with relevant image, colour and design can do everything you want your content inside the book to do — sell more copies.
Independent author - Jan Bear, believes that,
a good book cover design is one - that arouses the curiosity in book buyers and readers!
It's good to educate yourself on what makes
a good book cover design, but if you aren't a designer by trade, it's also best to hire a professional.
A good book cover design using graphics, interesting color combinations, fonts and effects that stand out will all contribute to an attractive cover that will grab the prospective customer's attention.
We just briefly discussed cover design in our digital publishing class and when I googled «
good book cover design ideas» your article was third on the list!
What makes
the best book cover design?
This means having
better book cover design that stands out and conveys exactly what your book is about in 3 seconds.
Due to popular demand, we've added a few new categories this year, including «
Best Book Cover Design / Fiction» and «
Best Book Cover Design / Non-Fiction»
Not exact matches
A songwriter might need accompanying musicians; an author might need a designer to do
good work in
designing a
book cover; a playwright will need actors and a theater to bring her play to life.
We work in a variety of media
covering illustration, graphic
design, identities, packaging, animation, installations, 3D
design and set / prop
design, as
well as recently starting the Studio Binky Shop, which is our own range of products including cards, prints and colouring
books.
About Site - A place to celebrate and share
good book design from
cover to content.
It'll teach you everything you need to know, from deciding on a size for your
book to finding the
best look for it, creating a page
design and a
cover, typesetting it, and sending the properly formatted files to the printer.
It'll teach you everything you need to know, from deciding on a size for your
book to finding the
best look for it, creating a page
design and a
cover, typesetting it, and sending the properly formatted files to the printer.
Graphic
Design USA's American Inhouse
Design Awards this year honored three ASCD
book covers and one magazine
cover: Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization; Rethinking Homework:
Best Practices That Support Diverse Needs; Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom, 3rd Edition; and «Multiple Measures,» the November 2009 issue of Educational Leadership.
MPA received funding to provide teachers with materials and supply budgets to
cover «the little things» — markers, paper, binder clips, as
well as
books, equipment for science experiments, and journals — in order to
design quality daily lessons for students, while valuing teachers as professionals by providing needed classroom supplies and materials.
For now, we can only judge these two
books by their
covers, and while we do like the
designs of the new trucks, we Autoblog staffers are torn on exactly which one looks
best.
I'm offering a wide variety of pre-designed
covers in a lot of genres as
well as custom
design work that will bring your unique vision of your
book to life.
I'm certainly not: I don't have the visual
design ability or the technical skills to create anything approaching a competent
book cover (and I'll probably waste hours of
good writing time in trying to).
Computers have revolutionized
design - oriented industries like architecture and packaging, and have changed the world of
book covers as
well.
I parted company with HarperCollins after my last
book launch and have since taken back control of not just «brand Polly Courtney» but all the component parts of the publishing process: editing (I use a professional freelance editor as
well as crowd - sourced readers) and
cover design (I work directly with a designer, who has also worked on the second editions for my first two novels), production and distribution (I use Troubador Publishing) as
well as promotion — which I'm finding far easier to do now that I'm proud of the product I'm promoting!
So it's more important than ever that a
book's core elements (ie, editing, formatting and
cover design) are
good enough to compete.
While having the front
cover for marketing purposes before your
book is published is a
good thing, you need to know the following items before the
cover design process is even started.
If you're self - publishing, at this stage you'll probably want to work with a
book designer to create an appealing
cover design and interior page
design, as
well as to determine the viability of other aesthetic elements such as a press logo and promotional materials.
As authors, I think we should treat a foreign translation like one of our
books —
good editing,
cover design, etc..
You should ALWAYS get your proofreading done, at the very least, and preferably some editing too if you can afford it, and next on your shopping list should be a
good cover design from a
book design specialist.
I wrote up a short
design brief that's
good for any
book cover: Bet big on one visual concept.
Once pre-production work on your materials has been completed, your
book will be sent to a
design team responsible for creating a page layout for your manuscript and
designing a
book cover based on guidelines set forth by Simon & Schuster as
well as your own input and suggestions.
Too many times, the
cover was poorly
designed, didn't relate to the
book topic and was third - rate at
best.
The new
cover was
designed in consultation with other families living with Type 1 diabetes, with medical professionals, and with professional
book cover designers, and it has been very
well received.
Get comfortable with
book design terms so you can
best communicate with your
cover and interior layout designer.
The novel comes with a beautiful
cover designed by Birmingham graphic artist Sean Strong, who is already working on the next
book as
well as re-designing the
cover for Buried in Time.
As a designer, I'd love to see you advocate for higher standards of typesetting and
cover design along with quality writing, but anything that helps to certify «
better books» can only help.
View a selection of
well -
designed self - published
book covers.
Continuing my passion for
books, in 2007 I started an e-
cover service, offering 3D e-covers as
well as hard copy
book cover designs.
Many
good self - published
books are let down by a poor
cover design.
I began putting my 3/4 of a
design minor to
good use and started creating
book covers and interior layouts for Spencer Hill.
Since 2015 we have worked on over 200
book projects, including 25
best - sellers to build coherent
cover and interior
book design concepts that uphold the highest
design and typesetting standards while maintaining visual consistency throughout the project.
That's not to say that you should go it alone — hiring proof - readers, a
good editor and getting a great
cover design can help give your
book a much
better start.
My question (s) would be about «marketing» — particularly around what makes a
good cover design and what makes a
good «
Book Description» on your amazon book sales p
Book Description» on your amazon
book sales p
book sales page.
-- John Kremer @JohnKremer,
Book Design: Elements of
Good Cover Design
CM began as a full - service
design studio, and while we still provide those services we've transitioned into
book production as
well — including, but not limited to: full, print - ready
cover art, interior typesetting, promos and more!
-- Simon Avery @idobookcovers, Publishing: How to
Design The
Best Book Cover for Online Sales
With 30 million high quality images, we believe this is the
best option to use when creating awesome
book cover designs for authors.
It's the
best tool to help you make informed decisions along your publishing journey — from editing recommendations, to your
book's title and
cover design considerations, to tips on taking advantage of marketing connections you may not even realize you have.
Tweet Shawn Hansen is a published author, as
well as a graphic artist (she has
designed several of my
book covers) and someone who now teaches others how to be successful writing and marketing
books online.
A
well -
designed cover that speaks to the buyer is vital when it comes to the success of your
book.