Kindle Formatting: Requirements for the Kindle Book Cover Image
Learn how to prepare your book images and upload your Kindle book cover to the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing system.
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Day 7: Book Cover Templates by Sample and Example
Book cover tutorial on ebook cover design with downloadable example.
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Day 6: Pulling the Book Cover Elements Together
A Good book cover design draws attention and more sales. Learn how to put together a professional looking ebook cover.
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Day 5: Book Cover Research and Design
On a Budget? How you can use royalty-free stock photos and illustrations to create a book cover.
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Day 2: Formatting, Book Covers and Blogs, oh my!
I am going to really push you today. The following are the key to your entire e-publishing adventure and can be worked on concurrently. Day 2: Cleaning up your Manuscript for eformatting: 1-3 days Set Up a Blog: 1 day (or less) Create or Hire for a Cover Design: 5 days Formatting Your Manuscript This [...]
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How to Add a Book Cover Image to a Kindle eBook
Uploading a word processing file to Kindle is a fairly easy process. But what if you want a cover image? Here’s an easy way to convert your word file to HTML and add the cover image.
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eBook Cover: How to add e-book covers to Kindle book
Author Tools & Tips / Book Covers / Formatting / How To Tips / How To Videos / Kindle Direct Publishing / Tutorials / Unruly Guides & Tutorials
An easy to follow tutorial on how to add your book cover to your Kindle / Word file.
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eBook Cover Design Tutorial: Primary and Complementary Colors
Author Tools & Tips / Book Covers / First Steps / How To Tips / Layout and Design / Tutorials / Unruly Guides & Tutorials
When it comes to any design, choosing the right colors is just as important as the font or photo. But every color evokes a different emotional response. Knowing what color combination work well together is half the battle of book cover design.
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eBook Cover Design Tutorial: How to Create a Book Cover Using Stock Photos and Photoshop
Author Tools & Tips / Book Covers / First Steps / How To Videos / Layout and Design / Tutorials / Unruly Guides & Tutorials
In this First Steps Tutorial, I show you how you can utilize Royalty Free stock photos and illustrations to create a book cover. The video covers the basics of using an online stock photography source (BigStock.com), how to save a photo to a lightbox, download a preview example, and set up the book cover page [...]
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eBook Cover Tutorial: Eight Tips for an Effective Book Cover Design
Author Tools & Tips / Book Covers / First Steps / How To Tips / Layout and Design / Unruly Guides & Tutorials
The Secret to Good Book Design, Production and Layout is knowing what works and what doesn’t. Though there are volumes that I could write on the principles of good design, that is not the purpose of this post. Most people in the publishing industry believe that a good book cover design is a book’s number [...]
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Poetry e-Book Cover Design
Even if you are using a Vanity Press, hire a graphic designer, or create a book cover yourself, make sure you have explored the best options for your book (and budget).
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Book Covers that Annoy Booksellers
An informative, tongue-in-cheek list of what to do if you WANT bookstores to NOT carry your book — something every writer desires, right?
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eBook Cover Design Tutorial: Choosing Colors
More often than not, the topic of your book helps determine the color theme. For example, a book on babies or weddings use whites or soft pastels; murder mysteries may include red or black; boating, oceans and space science themes utilize blues, blacks or even green.
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eBook Cover Design Tutorial: Breaking Down the Elements
A picture says a thousand words: for an author, it’s more like 120,000 words. The right book cover image is crucial for attracting customers. J.K. Rowlings’ cover art for the book, the Sorcerer’s Stone (Philosopher’s Stone), uses key ingredients to entice, but NOT reveal the story. Breaking down these elements into their basic parts, we can create a list to follow when you are creating your book covers. (This list is by no means definitive; feel free to add or substitute.)
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eBook Cover Design Tutorial: Typography and Fonts
When I was but a young apprentice, my wise Art Director taught me – never create “shlock”. Unfamiliar with this term, I innocently asked what it meant. SCHLOCK (Wikipedia) Schlock is an English word of Yiddish origin meaning “something cheap, shoddy, or inferior.” In other words it means you are settling for something other than [...]
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