The cover art has title and author in place.
Someone covered it with an overused template that obscures the cover art with the title and author in larger text.
Someone thought this was good? Naw.
I think LBC is being used for free publicity. It’s the only rational explanation.
Damned if I understand it. The only thing that I can think of–and I think of it because I see it all the time on the forums ’round the Net dedicated to assisting new publishers–is that people buy a cover design from a Fiverr or wherever, OR, they get something from a family member, and the cover creator/designer didn’t know that covers are specifically sized–bespoke, in other words.
Your book cover is tailored, to stick with this metaphor, for your book. Its trim size, its page count, and your paper choice. Only then can the cover designer finish their work. Not before.
If the would-be publisher has a cover that s/he then cannot use, because the designer didn’t actually and actively design it for that custom book, the publisher might, in desperation, use KDP’s Cover Creator tool–and not be able to figure out how to NOT accept the default cover designs.
That’s my operating theory, anyway.
Charles Cassady
3 years ago
My quick fix: add “National Lampoon’s” in front of title. Best get the correct font this time, though I’ve no idea who owns the rights; maybe P.J. O’Rourke.
The cover art has title and author in place.
Someone covered it with an overused template that obscures the cover art with the title and author in larger text.
Someone thought this was good? Naw.
I think LBC is being used for free publicity. It’s the only rational explanation.
Damned if I understand it. The only thing that I can think of–and I think of it because I see it all the time on the forums ’round the Net dedicated to assisting new publishers–is that people buy a cover design from a Fiverr or wherever, OR, they get something from a family member, and the cover creator/designer didn’t know that covers are specifically sized–bespoke, in other words.
Your book cover is tailored, to stick with this metaphor, for your book. Its trim size, its page count, and your paper choice. Only then can the cover designer finish their work. Not before.
If the would-be publisher has a cover that s/he then cannot use, because the designer didn’t actually and actively design it for that custom book, the publisher might, in desperation, use KDP’s Cover Creator tool–and not be able to figure out how to NOT accept the default cover designs.
That’s my operating theory, anyway.
My quick fix: add “National Lampoon’s” in front of title. Best get the correct font this time, though I’ve no idea who owns the rights; maybe P.J. O’Rourke.
Is this the same Froggy that went a’courting?