Tag: Self-publishing

how to make an ebook cover

Book cover design is booming and even has its own awards. Design Observer promotes anannual award for book cover design with a 35-person judging panel! The traditional process of getting a book cover design can be extremely time-consuming and the result is often disappointing for the author. This is all changing with the digital age ushering in an era of author-led ebook publishing and with a little help from crowdsourcing.

 

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How to Make a Book Cover in GIMP

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Joleene Naylor

“Design Your Own eBook Cover That Sells: The Complete Guide”

Find standard eBook cover size specifications. To start making the cover, open up a new project in Photoshop and implement the settings below.  While these settings are standard, it would be helpful to learn the different sizes and formats for all online eBook publishers. Amazon Kindle’s recommended height and width is listed below.

  • Preset: Custom
  • Height and Width: 1600 px x 2400 px
  • {Amazon Kindle Recommended}: 1563 px x 2500 px
  • Resolution: 300 px/inch
  • Color: RGB
  • Background Color: Transparent

Articles on Writing

Whenever you feel stuck with your article writing and are facing the typical writer’s block, you should go with the ‘brain dumping’ method where you write as fast as possible without thinking twice. Just write down everything that comes into your mind, and this will help the break writer’s block that you may be experiencing. As you write down this content, the spelling, grammar and punctuation will not even be considered during this process. You will be utterly astounded by all of the content that you come up with what you have put all of your article content into written format. Later on, you can use re-structure and proof read this article to make it presentable.

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