But since these publishers and small presses have really
ugly cover design options and...
I could pull samples from the 25 top small presses and publishers, showing off
their ugly cover designs, to demonstrate what a poor choice these options are to authors (since the cover will be the biggest factor in your book's success, and small presses or services that charge a publishing fee skimp on quality design to make more money for themselves).
Not exact matches
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.
These
designs often become the darlings of the season and the pages of all the glossies are flooded with
ugly brown shoes and purses
covered in leather robots.
Thor features
ugly character
design, which the DVD's front
cover interestingly and utterly betrays.
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.
The only things America Star Books is still entitled to is the ISBN number (there are countless numbers of those), the
cover design (which was
ugly anyway) and the page layout.
In The
Ugly Edition, author Hugh Howey tells us he didn't really want to make the «
ugly»
design for the forthcoming (August 17) third book in the trilogy — the «Dust
cover,» as I never tire of saying in my irritating way.
An
ugly or unreadable book
cover design is a huge hurdle that even a fantastic book often can't overcome.
This video from AuthorHouse, on the other hand, uses dozens of very
ugly, unprofessional book
cover designs as examples of «Good»...
Most small presses (and even big companies like Createspace or Lulu) show at best very boring
cover design samples, and at worst tragically
ugly ones (and those are their best examples!)
Honestly though, I really feel that EMUI has some hidden value, it's just
covered up by a thick layer of inconsistency,
ugly design, and bloat.