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Cover Design

You never get a second chance to make a first impression

 

A book cover design should be completely original and customized as it is the most important marketing element for your book. Whatever your book genre, the cover, at first glance is noticed before a reader even opens the page. It acts as your shop window so it must have impact for the public to want to buy.

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Grab attention with a custom designed book cover that gets your book noticed and generates sales. Our professional book cover design services provide value and flexibility while maintaining the highest quality in production standards.

 

Authors are usually not marketing experts. Some will often overlook critical items necessary for book sales. ​It needs to:

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  • Look professional 

  • Compliment your authorship

  • Engage your reader

  • Convey the content of your book

  • Create the sale

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Moving forward. 

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Call us directly on 1300 88 5858 or place an enquiry to find out more about our cover design service.

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Advanced Cover Design 

From $750 

  • Truly original and unique. Original digital images by award winning artist and cover designer. Based on your choices and cover questionnaire, this option will include:

  • A minimum of three front cover concepts or variations

  • Two rounds of simple alterations to these concepts (if required). Additional revisions or new concepts: $85/hour.

  • Creation of original digital cover artwork - be original and different

  • Custom typography.

  • Digital image blending and manipulation as needed, and colour selection to bring out the best in the images

  • Design of front and and back cover 

  • Review of back cover copy

  • Free bar code

  • Free eBook cover

  • Free marketing cover files (3D book images, web banners, composite images) 

 

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Premium Cover Design 

$495

  • Either supply us with a high-resolution digital image free for commercial use or we can undertake simple original digital artwork. Based on your choices and cover questionnaire, this option will include:

  • A minimum of two front cover concepts or variations

  • One round of simple alterations to these concepts (if required). Additional revisions or new concepts: $85/hour.

  • Purchase of up to 2 digital images from our sources. Or we will supply simple /original digital artwork.

  • Custom typography.

  • Digital image / artwork blending and manipulation as required , and colour selection to bring out the best in the images

  • Design of front cover. Back cover will be mirror front image or plain (based on your preference). . 

  • Free bar code

  • Free eBook cover

  • Free marketing cover files (3D, banners, composite images) 

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Simple Cover Design

$295

  • Supply us with a high-resolution digital image / artwork that is for commercial use. Based on your choices and cover questionnaire, we will develop a simple front cover concept. This option includes:

  • One front cover concept

  • One round of simple alterations. Additional revisions: $85/hour.

  • Client to make purchase of up to 1 image from our sources if required

  • Template driven or custom typography.

  • Digital image blending and manipulation as needed, and colour selection to bring out the best in the images

  • Design of front cover. Back cover will be mirror front image or plain (based on your preference). 

  • Free bar code

  • Free eBook cover

  • Free marketing cover files (3D book images, web banners, composite images) 

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  • Can you undertake my legal requirements for me?
    Yes we are more than happy to do this for you and we charge you a service /admin fee to undertake the tasks. You will pay for the actual costs through the relevant organisations (barcodes and isbns etc).
  • What is a legal deposit?
    Legal Deposit is a requirement under the Copyright Act 1968 for publishers and self publishing authors to deposit a copy of any work published in Australia with the National Library (or library of Congress in US) and when applicable, the deposit libraries in your home state. Legal Deposit ensures that Australian publications are preserved for use now and in the future. We are happy to undertake this task for you and a service fee applies.
  • Do I need an ISBN and who should own the ISBN?
    The short answer is yes, if you’re intending on selling your book, and you should own it. ISBN's are to most authors, just one more detail to look after when they are already feeling overwhelmed. Self-publishing companies prey on unsuspecting authors with low budgets, so when they say, “We’ll provide you with one of our ISBNs for free,” authors breathe a sigh of relief. But little do they know this is one of the worst decisions they wiill make. ISBNs can only be purchased legally from Bowker. Self-publishing companies purchase ISBNs in bulk (as can any author). In a nutshell - who owns the ISBN owns the book. When you purchase an ISBN, Bowker wants to know the name of the publisher. So, if XXX self-publishing company buys the ISBNs, they enter their name as the publisher. When they assign one of their bulk-purchased ISBNs to a book, the company becomes the publisher of the book and not the author/publisher. At Pickawoowoo Publishing Services, each author is considered an independent publisher. We do not pass control of your book over to ourselves nor forfeit a percentage of your compensation (royalties). For that reason, we will purchase ISBNs on behalf of an author with the author listed as the publisher. Total transparency and you own it.
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