Within the variety of artistic expression, the art of book design is too often overlooked. From the 16th century well into ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Cover design personalization may be the next frontier as books evolve across digital, print and audio. If you want to write a book, you ...

For Reed, Second Hand isn’t simply a nostalgic trip down memory lane. The unearthing of analog book covers offers an opportunity to give lesser known, but brilliantly executed, designs their due. He ...

The idiom “never judge a book by its cover” warns against evaluating something purely by the way it looks. And yet book covers are designed to give readers an idea of the content, to make them want to ...