designing book cover

Designing a book
From the guest speakers and the articles, I have learned Ways to advertise a book to fans, strategies in marketing books, tips in designing book websites and book covers.
As the “Practical Writer” suggests, an author should take advantages of the social Medias such as Facebook, twitter, and blogs. Advertising books using social Medias is a required marketing tool. Social Medias are a great way to get new fans and keep connected with existing fans. When using these sites an author should participate on regular basis. It is also advisable an author run his own sites in case he changes a publisher.
As “The Practical Writer” suggests an author should consider the fans that are interested on the subject of the book. This gives a site focus and direction. When building a website, an author should consider the audience than evoking the emotional content of the book. He should put some unique thing on his website other related websites do not have to attract fans. For example games, reader’s feedback, and photo gallery are great attraction tools. They give a site a high demand. Web users will remember the site and check back again.
Book designing is a serious task. When designing a book, designers should consider the size of the page, line length, style of headings, page numbers. The wrong paper choice san completely wrecks a book. The contrast should be adjusted otherwise a reader might get tired of reading the book and blame the author. From the guest speakers’ point of view, there is a lot of artistic in designing a book. The format on the cover of a book should be analyzed well. This is a novel idea to design a good book. Images can speak more than words. An author should Design a book cover with an image that glorifies the content of the book.
As the guest speakers stated, people judge a book by its cover. Create a book cover or dust jacket worthy of the words inside the pages of the book. The book cover has become one of the most important selling components. Over half of booksellers feel the cover design is the most important component. It is a fact, that the front cover of a book is what draws the initial attention of buyers. If the buyer doesn’t like the cover, he won’t look inside the book. The title, size and clarity of the texts, the colors, and the size of the book are important in selling a book. We should make sure the title not only represents the books contents, but is clear and comprehendible to the potential buyer. If there are two books at a book stand, both with the same information and one have a great design on the cover, the other has no design; people will choose the book with best cover.