We may say, “Don’t judge a book by its cover”, but we don’t practice it. If you are a book author (or future author), your cover may doom you to failure, or may lead you to success. An attractive cover is critical if you are to have a best-seller. That’s true on Kindle, on Amazon, and on any other website. People can’t pick up your book to delve deeply into it, as they can in a physical book store. They have to rely on the cues they get from looking at its online ad. A cover that appeals to the target audience (along with a title that also appeals to them) gets... [...]

Dan Lew and his buddy Bertranddo have released a ground-breaking Kindle book cover generator called “Kindle Renegade“. Using it, you can create Kindle book covers (and not just Kindle books either; covers for any ebooks) in seconds. You avoid the high prices and the sometimes low quality of outsourcers. The software is loaded on a membership site along with several high quality templates you can use for your books. Everything is so easy to use that you can have your first cover made in moments after you get your login credentials. Just choose a background. Place your title and subtitle... [...]