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Book Cover Design

Everything we know about book cover design.

Practical, specific advice on book cover design from the team that has been publishing authors since 2018. Read the guides.

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Book Cover Design

How many cover concepts should you get?

Why one is too few and ten is worse, what makes concepts genuinely different, and how to choose without ruining the cover.

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Book Cover Design

What print-ready actually means

Bleed, embedded fonts, CMYK, flattened layers, and rich black. What separates an accepted file from one that only looks fine.

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Book Cover Design

Book cover dimensions for KDP and IngramSpark

Trim sizes, the spine width formula, bleed, safe margins, and the ebook ratio. Every number your cover file needs.

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Book Cover Design

Book cover design: what makes a cover sell

The four jobs a cover has to do at thumbnail size, the genre signals authors get wrong, and the specs a printer actually needs.

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