If you’re an author wondering how to create the ideal book cover for your work, deciding between AI-generated designs and professional design services can feel challenging. The book cover is a key ...

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Everyone knows the writers. A few know the editors and publishers. But the first encounter a reader has with a book is often through its cover. Which is almost never created by the writer, editor or ...

Art historian Alka Pande is multi-tasking. When talking about book cover design in the run-up to the Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize announcement anytime this month, she cuts out to handle something ...

Evidently, the art of designing book covers cannot merely be left to pleasing aesthetics as the devil is in the detail — and the technicalities involved Rhea Gupte was sought out by writer Karuna ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. This article is more than 6 years old. Hiring a general ...

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 ...