This is Rob Kevin. And we'll be talking about designing a cover for your Kindle book. So the first thing you should do is select books or Kindle and search for the subjects area of the book that you want to write. So let's do selling online courses. And immediately the first one we'll see is quite simple. It's got a message there, you know, you're teaching on a computer, and you're going to make money and the colors are quite vibrant sticks out quite well.

Remember the books very small on the Amazon interface even smaller on the mobile interface. Scrolling down, there's one that's got a lot of negative space there that looks a little bit amateur. Here's one looks a little bit drier, a little bit boring. Seven, look at the next page. That's one much too busy. You can't really even read that the is about Etsy.

There's a quite a good one one, quite simple, you can easily read the title here is quite simple. I'm showing you that one because it's by me. So when you're designing a nonfiction Kindle book cover, or you're going to outsource one, but you have to be able to brief the designer and choose the correct design. Remember that Amazon's Kindle store has revolutionized book publishing. Everyone's reading Kindles on their tablets and on their phones. And as a result, 70,000 titles are being published every month, and you're competing for eyeballs in a crowded marketplace.

As I was saying just now keep it simple, bold colors, and make sure the title at least is legible. At a very small size. Remember, these covers are going to be tiny. They really got to stand out, and it's got to be legible. And you do that by keeping it simple, too. the right image I've got an example here, on the left of a inappropriate image, make sure the image has a lot of negative space.

So this is about legibility. Again, if you have a look on the left, the title of the book is running over a background. This is both light and dark, there's no consistency of color. On the right, you have an expanse of a similar color, and for that reason, the title is legible. On the right, choose the right font should reflect the subject matter of the book, you've got a very dry, serious topic. Of course, you don't use script fonts, and you don't use handwritten fonts.

You use serious Sans Serif fonts, and use different typefaces for the author and the text. So you really need your designer to be a good type ographers the one on the left has the title text very loose and very similar to the author, the one on the right at least has the Text tightened up in bold and all in caps, whereas the author is thinner weights and in upper and lower case. So when you send the brief off to a designer, remember to get him to deliver the file to you in Photoshop 1200 pixels by 1800 pixels in size at 300 PPI resolution in RGB. The final file that you upload at KDP amazon.com should be saved as a JPEG, but ask the designer for a PSD, a Photoshop file. So finally, when you're designing your covers, have a look at the competition. Always ask people on social media what they think of it, and give it to a good designer.

But when you give them the brief, remember what you've learned in this video and above will keep it simple. My name is Rob coven. I'll see you in another video.