If not, I suggest hiring an expert in book cover design. The best book size is that standard book size of 6 x 9—at least that is the most popular size. However, if you are creating a workbook, most likely you will want a larger, 8. If you are producing a 4-color photography book, you will want it even larger, so mages will be displayed beautifully in all their glory.
If writing a novel, a pocket size is more appropriate and that would be about 5 x 8 exact size is 5. These are the main standard sizes that you may expect to be accepted at all, if not most of the bookstores and all online venues.
Interior design refers to the inside of the book. If you are self-publishing, you must create the complete manuscript PLUS front and back matter to printer specifications in a digital file.
This file is a layout reprentations of how the inside of the book will look. The interior layout must include headers, page numbers, chapter headings, front matter and back matter—and a design using fonts and graphics that flows from the book cover. Many nuances plague the graphic artist who has never designed a book interior. To get a good overveiw of the strucure of a book including front and back matter, see The Book Blueprint by Deborah S. If you do not, this will add more billable time to the interior design, maybe even double the price to create interior.
This term refers to a design choice in printing and is a common error returned when using print on demand services. Many covers include a bleed in the design. Once printed and dried—when it comes time to cut the paper to its final size, this extra margine provides enough extra space for cutting error.
If your graphic file does not provide enough image to reach beyond the actual printed page, when final cutting is done, you could see a thin piece of white paper along the edge, rather than a clean edge with the image reaching to all the sides of the paper.
A true royalty, however, is granted by contract and in practice, from a traditional publishing who pays anywhere from. In the case of self-publishing, the final amount you earn is actually more accurately described as net profit, since as a self-publisher , you are in business for yourself. Nelson, Self-Publishing Coach. You must log in to post a comment. You must be logged in to post a comment. CreateSpace Cover Template Calculator.
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Nelson ». The number of pages of the book. In the section titled Configure your Template , fill in the information you copied from the Uploaded section for your book: Interior Type. Trim Size. For our example book, we chose 5. Number of Pages. Our example book has pages.
Paper Color. For our example book, we chose white pages. Click the large button labeled Build Template. In the Download your Template section, click the link labeled Click here to begin Download. Wait for your template file to download. Uncompress UnZip the downloaded template. The two uncompressed files contain the same image in two different formats: the PDF file illustrates the format of file CreateSpace wants you to eventually upload as your cover the PNG file is a simple image bitmap pixels file that you can directly use in image editing programs, such as Gimp or Adobe Photoshop.
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