Design
Ebook Specific Cover Design: #4 – Shape
This post is a part of Ebook specific cover design series. This is the most exciting part of the series, as it opens infinity of possibilities. Starting point: book cover doesn’t have to be rectangular any more. In this post I’ll explain why. I’ve designed a cover for Water’s Edge by Robert Whitlow to show [...]
Ebook Specific Cover Design: #3 – Proportions
This post is a part of Ebook specific cover design series. In a third post about ebook cover design I’d like to focus on proportions. A digital book is immaterial. It’s a file, not an object. If you open it on your device, it would most probably fit to the proportions of the screen. So, [...]
Ebook Design: Interview with Sarah E Melville
I’m honored to share an interview with Sarah E Melville. Sarah is an extremely talented graphic designer and award-winning artist. Recently she launched a new site, Your Cover Uncovered, where you can submit your book’s cover for review – as well as learn from reviews of other books. Designing covers specifically for ebooks is a [...]
Ebook Specific Cover Design: #2 – Size and Resolution
This post is a part of Ebook specific cover design series. When you make a decision to publish your book only in digital format, you are also making essential change in how you approach cover design. You no longer have to deal with dots per inch in a high-quality print. The goal is not 9 [...]
How to Create Ebook Covers with Phoster Application
Phoster is a fantastic application for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, perfect to create posters, cards, invitations and, yes, ebook covers. I’ve used the word “create” instead of “design” because it better describes what you’ll be doing. You don’t need to design a layout, it’s already done by the developers of the application, folks from [...]
Ebook Specific Cover Design: #1 – Context
This post is a part of Ebook specific cover design series. There are three approaches to covers: – ebook cover is a copy of a print edition, – one cover is designed for both print and digital edition, – a cover is designed for ebook only. I’d like to focus on the last one as [...]
Things to Consider When You Redesign a Blog
Are you planning to redesign a blog? If you are looking for advice based on a personal experience, you may find this post interesting. I’d like to share tips in reference to recent changes at Password Incorrect blog. First, and probably the most important tip: don’t start with looking for a new theme. It’ll give [...]
40+ Free Tools for Authors
This post is designed to give you a concise, yet comprehensive preview of most important free tools you can pick up to publish and promote your e-books. I hope it will help you discover the ones, which in a best possible way fit your author profile and personal needs. I’ll update the list frequently. It’s [...]
Free Tools for Authors Offered by Ebook Friendly: First Chapter Previews and Book Directory
You may already know that I founded Ebook Friendly – a very special e-bookstore addressed to those readers who are aware of distractions the web brings and want to avoid them at the stage of browsing for books. Why did I choose such a positioning? Because reading is all about being focused, opposite to Internet [...]
E-book Covers With E-reading Application Look
Copy-pasting covers from print to digital editions doesn’t make sense to me and in my opinion it’s a lost opportunity. I personally want to explore new areas – the ones digital world gives. If I’m designing a cover for an electronic book, it should be something which is using a digital context. That’s my goal, [...]
Ebook Discovery Site Designed to Help Users Focus on Reading
Since mid-December I’ve been working on a new site – Ebook Friendly. It’s an ebook site with a clear profile: to make discovering ebooks a part of reading, not a part of distraction. It’s up and running and you can check it at ebookfriendly.com (please come back later and share below what you think about [...]
E-book covers inspired by the design of mobile applications
I’m a mobile freak and here you have another prove of it. These are the brand new covers, I’ve designed with a help of my Twitter friends for two volumes of my short stories, which will be available in a couple of weeks through Smashwords/Barnes&Noble. In the meantime you can download a free edition here. [...]
15 Free Covers for Twitter Fiction Books
If you are considering to publish a book of your literary tweets, the only thing which stops you might be a lack of a cover. Problem solved. You can pick up your favourite one from below. They all are for free. I’ve designed them to help self-publishers like myself. What I’m only asking for is [...]
#VSS Anthology – vote for your favourite cover!
As you know, a first anthology of the best #VSS Twitter stories is being finalized right now. It’s a really exciting project and as a DIY writer/designer I’ve volunteered to create anthology’s cover. Out of several designs, two are the strongest – with each one having an idea behind. Cover A A book out of [...]
How to Turn Wordle Into an E-book Cover Generator
Wordle is a fantastic word cloud generator. Its creator, Jonathan Feinberg, has managed to do one great thing: with the selection of fonts, colors and a whole idea how the words are composed, the effect is far beyond the IT world. It already belongs to the world of art. With Wordle it’s all fun. You [...]
Possibilities of E-book Cover Design [Example]
Look at the example of a cover I recently made for my new book. Referring to this post, I just started to collect ideas of what can be done to support e-book cover design, with “e-book” being the most important part. We should stop thinking of e-books as a second class, second step or a [...]
Please Stop Complaining About E-book Design
There is a lot of complaining about how badly electronic books are designed. It’s true that 90% of e-book designs are crap. Most designers can tell you that. Probably exactly the same thing they say about paper books. The only difference is that in case of p-books they sometimes spot and share a good stuff. [...]
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