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Cover is life of Book, What you think?

Hi Friends,

I think Book Cover is life of Book and if the cover is dead then the book is dead. What you think?

Fiction and Non Fiction writers has different experience.

What you people think about that?

Also I think the Book Sales is mostly dependent on Covers, share you experience.

Cheers

Izhar

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Permalink Reply by scribbler on April 12, 2012 at 4:52pm

I think a book cover design is crucial to sales. If I see a badly put together one where graphics have just been slapped together with ugly fonts, especially in these days of ebooks, I rightly or wrongly would assume the book content will be the same and rarely look further.

We have a thread on the forum where you can showcase your book cover, Izhar. I think you'd be interested in that.

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Permalink Reply by Izhar ul Haq on April 12, 2012 at 4:53pm

Sure,

Please advise where Can I do that?

Izhar

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Permalink Reply by scribbler on April 12, 2012 at 4:57pm

Here it is Izhar. It's very interesting because members can share the background to why they designed (or chose the design of) their cover the way they did.

Explain please too what you mean about fiction and non-fiction writers having a different experience.

http://www.authors.com/forum/topics/share-the-story-of-your-book-co...

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Permalink Reply by Gil F. Balbuena Jr. on April 12, 2012 at 5:12pm

Book covers are hard to design and nice to look at. An effective book cover manages to catch human’s eye and convey the idea behind the book on one single page. However, it’s getting even harder: to make a book really hard to forget, designers need to design the cover in a unique, creative and striking way.

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Permalink Reply by Izhar ul Haq on April 12, 2012 at 6:22pm

Very right! But I feel that the author should share something he/she envision about the cover it will help designer to create a unique thing which can create WOW affect and author satisfaction both!

Gil F. Balbuena Jr. said:

Book covers are hard to design and nice to look at. An effective book cover manages to catch human’s eye and convey the idea behind the book on one single page. However, it’s getting even harder: to make a book really hard to forget, designers need to design the cover in a unique, creative and striking way.