Cover Designs For Your eBooks

I have a mixture of cover design strategies in my sixteen eBooks (2 more to come in the next few weeks) and the same method for the POD (print on demand) one also. Print eBooks you need to take note of the back cover, as along with the front as well as the spine text if have a book that is thick enough.

Color, simplicity and layout are the primary elements here. With the ease of publishing online and also in printing quickly and precisely as you want it You can alter the layout or even the entire cover almost instantaneously. Even beginners can design your own cover.

For eBooks , you require an appropriately-sized thumbnail to display online and inside your book. While there are various formats available but if you're just new to the world, the format you should first try is mobi. It is one is the one used by the biggest online retailer, which is where I keep my books. You can write your book using Word (.doc solely) and it needs to be prepared (unseen formatting is crucial) in a certain manner otherwise, all you'll receive in your eBook is garbage as well as unformatted content.

You can learn the format of your work for mobi by searching forums online or on websites that offer it, and then install the no-cost Mobipocket Reader. Request the Reader to open your.doc file. When it does, simply shut it down, and the book will be saved automatically within it's "documents" file (under eBooks) in a mobi format. It is the file you upload the file together with your thumbnail of the cover to this famous online bookselling website.

So, let's get we'll go back to the cover. If you don't have a partner or have the ability to make it yourself or use one of the fancy software for designing covers and you want to make use of the Windows "Paint" program which is included for free in the OS. Get a studio-quality JPEG (only) at shutterstock.com (or other sites) and then use it as your base design. If you buy a picture from them you'll be royalty-free up to 250,000 sales for your book However, you must be sure to read the terms of licensing on any website similar to this.

Open the photo in Paint and then get to work and add text, etc. Play around with the layout. It's always possible to start again when you mess up, and mess up the design, since you've got the original image and can play around with it on your computer. It's recommended to create a folder and save all your images in there, and that are designed specifically for your cover.

For a cover, you'll need the title , your name and but that's it. Try to keep the title concise and include an introduction (usually on the lower left) when it's part of an ongoing series. My book is titled The Mozart Killer - book 1 of The Foxworthy Files, for example. I've even added a Fox at the start to attract attention. as well as I have my series on a single page on the site of the retailer so that they're easy to locate.

In addition to the eBooks as I said you can also use this cover thumbnail to create your POD books , however it must be of top-quality so that when expanded by 5x8 to 6x9 (or any other size you want) it appears nice and is proportional. The POD section of this retailer offers templates for the cover and interior documents, so creating the complete POD book is fairly easy.

Choose your first eBook because they are the most sought-after, generally available on the site within a few hours and are able to be modified easily,feel free to check Digiart right here, both for the interior as well as the covers. If you make any changes to your book and on this website at a minimum it is it is recommended that your "old" version stays up there , so that customers continue to purchase as you wait for the most recent version to go live. What's the point of losing just one sales?