On the subject of books

[col]

On the subject of books over the past few years I have designed and photographed several covers (as a free job) for a friend ..Just finished the last one the comment from the publisher made me a little chuffed.

Hi J,

Your cover looks great. Well done Colin on the design.

I uploaded it to your account and used the mask to preview how it looks.

So yes the cover will drop into the template. The Publishing logo and
barcode will be generated automatically.

If you log into your account you can see the cover preview. I'd suggest
moving the back cover image up a couple of cms.

Otherwise looks great.

Thanks

R


Hi J,

Your cover worked perfectly. Attached is the PDF of how the cover looks.

The barcode will be added once you work through the publishing steps.

Thanks

R

[daveh]

Col, super. It's the sort of job that the results of which are easily visible and yet go virtually unnoticed. The only cover designs I've done are fake ones for weddings.

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I designed a number of covers during the years I worked for a book publisher. It's all about catching the bookstore browser's eye. Sometimes the title can be more important than the actual graphics. For instance: we did a book on the early history of Omaha, Nebraska. Most people don't think of Omaha as a particularly exciting place. At the suggestion of the author we titled it, "A Dirty, Wicked, Town." It sold like hotcakes!

A well-known reviewer said one book we did should win a Pulitzer. I still consider it the most significant book I edited while working there. The main title was "Massacre Along the Medicine Road." That was OK. But the sub title (which was the author's idea and I should have changed) was "A Social History of the 1864 Indian War in Nebraska Territory." It made it sound like a school textbook and our usual customers stayed away in droves. I've always believed that subtitle killed a great book.

W.