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How to Design a Book Cover Using Adobe InDesign: Design a Book Cover for CreateSpace or Kindle in a Few Simple Steps
Design and upload a print-ready cover for your paperback or hardcover book. No previous design experience necessary!
With this short ebook, you'll be able to design a print-ready book cover spread in no time. Just follow the simple instructions, and you'll be able to send your cover to the printer in no time.
In this book, you'll learn how to:
Understand the parts of a cover spread
Determine the dimensions of your book's cover spread
Create editable panels, import text and graphic images into your file
Publish your file to print-ready PDF
How to avoid getting your files rejected by a POD
With this short ebook, you'll be able to design a print-ready book cover spread in no time. Just follow the simple instructions, and you'll be able to send your cover to the printer in no time.
In this book, you'll learn how to:
Understand the parts of a cover spread
Determine the dimensions of your book's cover spread
Create editable panels, import text and graphic images into your file
Publish your file to print-ready PDF
How to avoid getting your files rejected by a POD
30 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 18, 2013
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3 people want to read
About the author
Thomas M. Hill
13 books43 followersThomas M. Hill is an author, editor, and book shepherd who has been working in publishing for the last ten years. For the last four years he has assisted self-publishing authors in developing, editing, and producing print-ready publications that are up to traditional publishing standards. He has published four books, including his first suspense novel, Warrior's Song, which received a Readers Favorite Award in 2011.
Raised in Arlington, Virginia, Thomas began his career in publication composition, design, and production in 2000 and has worked for the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, the University of Virginia Press, the American Staffing Association, and the Computer Sciences Corporation in creative and editing departments. In 2006 he became a copy editor and proofreader for Rowan & Littlefield Publishing Group, where he worked on academic and nonfiction titles.
Among the assignments Thomas finds the most pleasurable are ones that require a great deal of research and thought--ones that take a great deal of time and energy to produce. Because he began his career in scholarly publishing, he tends to take a research-based approach to creating content while working in developmental editing roles. Character development for novels, research necessary to create a plot or write a nonfiction title, one-on-one developmental editing, and manuscript coaching: those are his strong suits. Additionally, he loves to engage his creative side by designing book covers and interiors for print or ebooks.
Thomas loves working with authors of any genre, but he is especially enthusiastic about titles that are thought-provoking, educational, or present unique perspectives on time-tested ideas. He has also studied four different languages (Spanish, German, Ancient Greek, and Arabic), so projects that deal with aspects of the cultures in which these languages are (were) spoken are of particular fascination.
Raised in Arlington, Virginia, Thomas began his career in publication composition, design, and production in 2000 and has worked for the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, the University of Virginia Press, the American Staffing Association, and the Computer Sciences Corporation in creative and editing departments. In 2006 he became a copy editor and proofreader for Rowan & Littlefield Publishing Group, where he worked on academic and nonfiction titles.
Among the assignments Thomas finds the most pleasurable are ones that require a great deal of research and thought--ones that take a great deal of time and energy to produce. Because he began his career in scholarly publishing, he tends to take a research-based approach to creating content while working in developmental editing roles. Character development for novels, research necessary to create a plot or write a nonfiction title, one-on-one developmental editing, and manuscript coaching: those are his strong suits. Additionally, he loves to engage his creative side by designing book covers and interiors for print or ebooks.
Thomas loves working with authors of any genre, but he is especially enthusiastic about titles that are thought-provoking, educational, or present unique perspectives on time-tested ideas. He has also studied four different languages (Spanish, German, Ancient Greek, and Arabic), so projects that deal with aspects of the cultures in which these languages are (were) spoken are of particular fascination.
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September 10, 2017
More for layout than design
The author walks you through step by step how to layout your cover using Adobe Indesign. This book is more of a how to layout your cover than it is how to design a cover.
The author walks you through step by step how to layout your cover using Adobe Indesign. This book is more of a how to layout your cover than it is how to design a cover.
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