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 Post subject: Custom cover for a kindle ebook.
PostPosted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 10:49 am  (#1) 
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So I read this free ebook called "Approaching Zero" from here:
<dam I can't add links so google "approaching zero paul mungo manybooks">

and liked it very much, but the cover was crap so I tried to make my own:
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I know the border is ugly but It became very hard to see on the device if I tried to make it look better.

Here's how it looks on my kindle:
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The font I used is "Parametric Glitch" by VinterstilleTypeFaceLab


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 Post subject: Re: Custom cover for a kindle ebook.
PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 10:33 am  (#2) 
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Guys guys at least give me some suggestions or something


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 Post subject: Re: Custom cover for a kindle ebook.
PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 10:44 am  (#3) 
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IMHO... the boarder is the best part of you book cover.
Your font is also very pixelated and needs some work.
I can't seem to find any better of an example for this book cover anywhere.

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 Post subject: Re: Custom cover for a kindle ebook.
PostPosted: Sun Oct 18, 2015 1:09 am  (#4) 
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The art is nice but I can't tell much at all about the book itself, which is a significant shortfall. My wife is a librarian and she would tell you that they very much do judge a book by its cover. She wrote a guest post about this over here that might provide some insight into the marketing aspects of a book cover.

I found what looks like the original cover on Google, and it seems a bit more effective in terms of describing the book's content. If I had to guess what it was about from your cover, I'd think it was math related (calculus, limits, etc.)


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 Post subject: Re: Custom cover for a kindle ebook.
PostPosted: Sun Oct 18, 2015 7:32 am  (#5) 
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Ya I guess it is not that descriptive. I had tried to add a lot of things like some source code for the background with a tunnel but they always ended up being invisible on the kindle. All I could do was add a grid of some sort and some deliberately pixellated stuff to make it look hacker-y.
TBH I don't understand the meaning of the book's name or what it is trying to reference even though I read it completely. I just thought it might look cool if represented that way, which is what started the creation of the cover.


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