Designing book covers is famously difficult. It's so hard we have an entire idiom that asks us not to judge the worth of something just because its cover turned out really, really ugly. From our ...

Remember when you were in elementary school and you had to spend part of your first day covering all of your books with paper grocery bags? Of course, the best part was decorating them once they were ...

Last year, Greenery was the belle of the ball, and in 2016, Rose Quartz and Serenity shared the great distinction. I'm talking, of course, about the Color of the Year, an honor bestowed upon one ...

At its bluntest and most general, the current directive in book design is that covers be, above all else, legible. So that when they’re viewed online (which, for many people buying books, means Amazon ...

We are cautioned to avoid judging a book by its cover, yet that is precisely what publishers hope we will do. Dust jacket illustration, which came into its own in the 1920s, has long deserved ...

Great for kids reading comics, graphic novels, and other illustrated books. Amazon Kids+ content adds tons of age-appropriate books, and you get a year of access. Included cover is a nice bonus. Kids ...