A Cover Designer That Actually Understands Books

The cover is the hardest part of self-publishing to get right, and the place where generic tools fail authors most. A design app can make a pretty rectangle, but a printed book is not a rectangle. It is a front, a spine whose width depends on your exact page count and paper, a back cover, and a barcode that has to scan at a register.

Built around your actual book

Our cover designer knows your book's trim size, page count, and paper stock, because it lives on the same platform as your manuscript. That means:

• The spine is always the right width. Add a chapter and the wrap recalculates. No math, no templates to re-download.
• The barcode is handled. A scannable ISBN barcode is generated and placed correctly on the back cover for you.
• Start from a template or your own art. Use a designed starting point, or upload finished artwork and let the designer fit it to the exact wrap dimensions.
• What you preview is what prints. The same file you see is the file the printer receives.

The alternative is a rejection loop

On the big platforms the cover is your problem: download a template sized to today's page count, design in another tool, export, upload, get rejected for a two millimeter spine error, repeat. Many authors give up and pay a formatter just to escape the loop. Here the loop does not exist, because the designer and the printer speak the same language from the start.

Your cover is the first thing every reader judges. Design one in Studio and see the full wrap, spine and barcode included, before you spend a cent.