Olivia Nuzzi's beleaguered book has a cover as ambitious as its author. This book cover designer went viral on TikTok. Then his career took off In just under two years, Elisha Zepeda has turned a ...
Go into any bookshop and you’ll see a smorgasbord of design styles. There will be the big, bold, blocky text covers; the abstract image covers; the hand-drawn lettering in twee frame covers; the ...
With more and more authors taking the production of their books into their own hands, more and more of those books look... strange. That’s not a good thing for either authors or their readers. Book ...
Isaac Tobin peruses his wares in the old Seminary Co-Op bookstore at the University of Chicago. Photo: Alyssa Pointer/Chicago Tribune; Cover courtesy of Isaac Tobin After graduating from the Rhode ...
Among the many challenges book cover designers face is trying to represent a book’s premise or main character without getting so specific that readers are left with little to imagine. A few years ago, ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Attracting high-paying clients by marketing with a book and a speech. Yes, the old cliché is true: people judge a book by its ...
I own a book that I’ve read into but never really read. Still, I hang onto it. It’s a 1907 edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, with a fire-engine-red cover out of which ...