Finding the right cover and jacket design for a book can be one of the most exciting parts of the publishing process—and one of the most challenging. Indie authors will want to give some serious ...

Attaching the cover to your book is straightforward. First, you remove the dust jacket from your book, unfold the jacket’s flaps and measure the length of the entire thing, then cut off a piece ...

Bacon, who designed more than 6,000 book jackets and was also a jazz singer ... “Compulsion” was a blockbuster and its startling cover became a template for a changing industry.

What makes an outstanding book cover? The Book Jacket Designers Guild of the 1940s and ’50s defined the art as the “successful integration of concept with graphic means … and expression of t ...

Peter Mendelsund estimates he's designed "somewhere between 600 and 1,000 book covers," ranging from Crime ... because mood is very important on a book jacket. ... You're just trying to translate ...