Creative process from sketch to final cover Technical precision for print-ready files Margins, bleed, and crop marks explained Expanding access to professional book design Creative process from sketch ...

What makes you pick up a book you’ve never heard of? Is it the title, the author’s name, or the promise of an intriguing story? More often than not, it’s the cover—a single image that has the power to ...

An expanding set of expert resources is changing how authors, marketers, and designers use AI to produce book covers and other visuals, focusing on clear task breakdowns, genre-specific templates, and ...

It used to be enough for a book to idly stand out in a bookstore. Nowadays, however, new books must jostle for attention with everything. Thousands of distractions are just a click away. Is it any ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Wherever you stand on the future of the book – doomed to oblivion by the Kindle, or an indestructible part of our cultural life – ...

With ‘bookstagramming’ becoming a force in marketing, are designers making covers more colourful, bolder and cleaner, to stand out on our screens? To paraphrase John Waters: “We need to make books ...