What makes you pick up a book you’ve never heard of? Is it the title, the author’s name, or the promise of an intriguing story? More often than not, it’s the cover—a single image that has the power to ...

Despite a steady rise in the popularity of e-books and a surge in ownership of electronic readers and tablets, real dead-tree paper books are not about the exit the scene any time soon. And while most ...

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Looking for a solution to design your own eBook covers on Windows PC? Here is a complete guide to creating an eBook cover image for free. You can use a free template to design and customize your eBook ...

Next, read the book. Whether you like it is irrelevant; you’re reading for symbols, characters or themes that could visually represent the book without giving too much away. A cover should communicate ...

Fantasy fiction is thriving – and so its visual language. Here, art director Beci Kelly shares her tips for standing out in a ...

First, we will download a realistic-looking cover or texture or copy and paste an image to the PowerPoint slide. Go to New Slides on the Home tab in the Slides group and create a new slide; in this ...

Designing a great cover for a famous novel can be a daunting enough task, but Canadian illustrator Ray Fenwick had to literally do one better. As part of a series in which Houghton Mifflin republished ...

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