Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. This article is more than 6 years old. Hiring a general ...

Finding the right cover and jacket design for a book can be one of the most exciting parts of the publishing process—and one of the most challenging. Indie authors will want to give some serious ...

What makes you pick up a book you’ve never heard of? Is it the title, the author’s name, or the promise of an intriguing story? More often than not, it’s the cover—a single image that has the power to ...

Despite a steady rise in the popularity of e-books and a surge in ownership of electronic readers and tablets, real dead-tree paper books are not about the exit the scene any time soon. And while most ...

Pennsylvania students can enter a state-wide competition marking Financial Planning Month. Auditor General Tim DeFoor kicked off the “Be Money $mart” financial literacy contest Monday with half-day ...

She’d been tasked with designing the book covers for the English translations of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-part autobiographical novel, My Struggle—and she’d landed on a concept to tie the volumes ...

First, we will download a realistic-looking cover or texture or copy and paste an image to the PowerPoint slide. Go to New Slides on the Home tab in the Slides group and create a new slide; in this ...

If you have a story you want to share, you can easily publish your work in popular electronic bookstores — and maybe even make a little money. By J. D. Biersdorfer Have you ever dreamed of publishing ...

You’ve probably heard the phrase "you can't judge a book by its cover" enough times to believe it’s true. But Jessica Helfand says it's nonsense. “At the end of the day, a book is a visual object,” ...

PEOPLE spoke with Farrar, Straus & Giroux creative director Rodrigo Corral and graphic designer and illustrator June Park, who designed the novel's U.S. cover “We brainstormed a few ideas, and we ...

I think about this year-end list of design books all year long, collecting stacks, reading hundreds of pages, pouring over countless images. I keep a list of the books that stick with me and feel like ...