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Episode 334: Iconic Images, Information, & Accessibility: Designing Book Covers | A People's Guide to Publishing

Episode 334: Iconic Images, Information, & Accessibility: Designing Book Covers | A People's Guide to Publishing

Update: 2025-10-16
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Can you really judge a book by its cover? Absolutely, yes. 

A lot of work goes into planning a book's cover design— marketing goals, representing the author's work, making it appealing to the target audience, legibility, and so much more. This week on the pod, Joe walks us through the things Joe takes into consideration for designing over covers.

Note: For those just listening to audio, there's an accompanying slideshow in the video where Joe is showcasing varying covers! Still valuable info with just audio, but we recommending trying to catch the video of this as well.

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Episode 334: Iconic Images, Information, & Accessibility: Designing Book Covers | A People's Guide to Publishing

Episode 334: Iconic Images, Information, & Accessibility: Designing Book Covers | A People's Guide to Publishing

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