Book Jacket Info For Short

Bookbaby will calculate your book s spine width based on the specifications you select when configuring your book along with the number of pages in the uploaded text body file.

Book jacket info for short. A portrait oriented rectangular size is common for book covers but you can customize the size to your needs. To give you complete mastery over this step we ve turned to our top designers for their sharp insight. To make sure that the dimensions of your jacket are perfect you ll need to first measure the size of your book s face from bottom to top to find its length then spine to edge to find its width.

Clements based the book. Book cover design is a complex balance of images text and information and you need someone who understands how each of these elements interacts with the others to best sell your book. Chip kidd knopf s famous and talented associate art director offers an education about design in his ted talk designing books is no laughing matter ok it is in which he talks about book design as a first impression.

Both our hardcover and softcover books come in all standard book sizes. A designer who specializes in book jackets understands how readers respond to layout and typography. The jacket is a 2001 children s book by author andrew clements.

Custom book cover styles. Here are their best tips for you in their own words. Custom hardcover books can also be covered with a dust jacket a removable paper cover used to protect a book from dirt or damage.

Creating the back of a book cover is a two step process. There is a 24 page count minimum for our hard case bindings. Lamination can change the visual and tactile experience of shopping for or reading a book.

Cut a strip of paper six inches longer than the height and fold it over each side trimming until you are happy with the size. How to design the back of a book cover. Now you need to design it.