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Ideas to locate the best book designing service providers

by Jemma Barsby Content Writer

The book cover designs have a major role to play in the success of any book. Though the author puts the best efforts into making the venture a success, the present-day market surveys have uncovered the real truth behind the acceptance of newly launched books in which more the 79% of the credit goes to the unique approach showcased by the book layout designer and his team.

If you are a self-publishing author, you need the involvement of a talented book cover designer that can help you in creating an accurate cover design or layout for your new book and make it more acceptable to readers.

To grab the attention of potential readers, today’s writers have to put their best efforts into exhibiting a unique approach to the cover where the images, typography and colour combination are incorporated appropriately to justify the concept, genre and them of the book.

As you are in the process of conceptualizing the book or have already penned it down, while appointing a few beta readers to get hold of the average market opinion, you should do your best research in finding the best book layout designer working individually or in a renowned studio based on your preferences.

Check out some significant pointers while you are tracking the best book designing service providers

  • Focus on your target audience
  • Study on an appropriate book cover design
  • Set up your strategy before hiring a book layout expert
  • Brainstorm the service providers with your questions based on the genre

Know your readers

Before delving into the hiring process of a book layout expert, you should step into the shoes of the potential readers you target. From their perspective and point of view, do some homework that will help you immensely while finalizing the book layout and the cover design. For instance, if you are a children book writer, focus on the type of illustrations the kids love to read. If you are a horror fiction writer, study the book cover layouts of your competitors of the horror genre Gods like Stephen King or H. P. Lovecraft to figure out what features to add and what to eliminate in the book cover.

Where to find the book designing service providers?

  • References & Recommendations—You can enlist the names of a few book cover designers or studios from the references or recommendations and start interviewing them after checking the best works they have created so far. Focus on the successful books or the bestselling books for which they made the book layout designs and rate them accordingly. 
  • Visit the reputed studios— Being a self-publishing author, you have the independence to walk into any studio where they offer one-stop books self publishing services including editing, book layout designing, illustrations, eBook conversions, and so on. Have a word with them about their expertise, total experience, their stand-alone proficiency in the genre and the bestselling books they have worked on. 
  • Hire a Freelancer—You can hire a freelancing book cover designer from Freelancer, Upwork or Fivver. At quite a competitive price, you can get a professional book cover design. Whether it is for the eBook or the paperback, hiring a freelancing designer is worthwhile. 

 

Your focus must be on some of the characteristics of the professionals, like—

  • Time Management
  • Expertise in the genre
  • Understands the pulse of Audience
  • Agreeableness
  • Great listener
  • Affordable pricing
  • Attuned to the cutting-edge software used for book layout designing
  • Well-groomed and updated with the trending book cover designs

By following these ideas, you can successfully locate the best book designing service providers.

Nathan Jones is a self-publisher owning the business for over a decade. His articles on different topics related to books self publishing to finding a book layout designer help his readers stay updated in the self-publishing spectrum. In this article, Nathan has focused on finding fruitful ways to locate the best book designing service providers.


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About Jemma Barsby Advanced   Content Writer

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Created on Sep 8th 2021 11:56. Viewed 235 times.

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