Need Help Picking a Book Cover! (:

[Uly Sambrano]

Hey you guys I need help picking a book cover for my book to for it to sell, let me know what you guys like or think! and thank you for all the help!

 

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[Sisyphus]

I dont like any of the them to be honest..

The typography looks really strange, especially on the second and third one

EDIT:
I figured it out! The typography looks strange because its not anti-aliased. Google that if you dont know what it is. If you are outsourcing the design, ask the typography to be vectorized.

 

[Uly Sambrano]

I dont like any of the them to be honest..

The typography looks really stange, especially on the second and third one

What are some examples you like

 

[Deleted21961]

I agree, none of these covers is good.
I'd like something simple, like this:

 

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[Uly Sambrano]

I agree, none of these covers is good.
I'd like something simple, like this:
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Im diggin the first one, not to bad. well thanks for your guys honest opinions haha ill try to figure some more covers

 

[RazorCut]

Same here. The covers look very old fashioned which would lead the viewer into subconsciously thinking the book is outdated and so of little use (we seem conditioned these days to want the latest version of everything however absurd that may seem).

Personally I would check out the covers of the best sellers on Amazon in my niche and de-construct them. I'd look at what appealing similarities they have. What worked and why. I might discount or give less gravitas to the more famous authors as the cover might have less significance on sales or more established books that might be selling due to their high customer ratings.

I would then check out similar niches and do it again to see more clearly any emerging patterns.

 

[Uly Sambrano]

Same here. The covers look very old fashioned which would lead the viewer into subconsciously thinking the book is outdated and so of little use (we seem conditioned these days to want the latest version of everything however absurd that may seem).

Personally I would check out the covers of the best sellers on Amazon in my niche and de-construct them. I'd look at what appealing similarities they have. What worked and why. I might discount or give less gravitas to the more famous authors as the cover might have less significance on sales or more established books that might be selling due to their high customer ratings.

I would then check out similar niches and do it again to see more clearly any emerging patterns.

Good tips right here thank you!

 

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[Peakdesire]

None of them will sell your book.

My advice would be to use Canva.com You can create extremely professional looking covers for free. Stock photos there cost $1. So it's $1 per cover.

Of course you could use fiver and get a cover for $5.

 

[Uly Sambrano]

Sweeeet I'll look at that today

 

[MayaMagpie]

I would also suggest a simpler design, especially with less text. People won't read it anyway.
Canva is a great tool, and also picmonkey (only if you already have a stock photo).

 

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[Uly Sambrano]

I would also suggest a simpler design, especially with less text. People won't read it anyway.
Canva is a great tool, and also picmonkey (only if you already have a stock photo).

I read a book, called book launch, and in it the guy suggest title lIke that. He also goes on to give alot of other information about people choosing it because of the title. So I thunk ima keep the title on this one since his books have been at the top of Kindle before. This is my first book so I'm def gonna learn from trying but thank you guys for the input I do appreciate it :]

 

[MayaMagpie]

What I meant was not the title, but the lengthy subtitle - It just takes up a lot of space on the cover. I prefer the short version that was posted by Grzegorz. So, slight misunderstanding... I think the subtitle as you wrote it has its place, but rather in the description than on the cover.

 

[Uly Sambrano]

I get what you mean, yea I thought the subtitle was long kinda to. But ima try it out for this book see how it goes then try shorter for the next one I'm planning

 

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[Uly Sambrano]

None of them will sell your book.

My advice would be to use Canva.com You can create extremely professional looking covers for free. Stock photos there cost $1. So it's $1 per cover.

Of course you could use fiver and get a cover for $5.

dude i checked out that canva website its bad a$$! thanks for telling me about it

 

[Peakdesire]

dude i checked out that canva website its bad a$$! thanks for telling me about it

Yeah it's awesome.

No problem.

 

[doncruz]

None of those covers look decent enough, too dark, I guess. And they do not convey the idea in the title.

 

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