Welcome to Part Two of my interview with Pamela Wilson, award winning designer, about how to design your book. Part One of How to Design Your Ebook is here.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- What you need to know to hire a designer
- How you can learn to design your ebook yourself
- Best tools to use to design your ebook
- Sneak peak at the Big Brand System
Listen to the design expert now:
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Download How to Design your Ebook (MP3)
Links to resources mentioned in the interview:
Also make sure to check out Pamela’s new project Ebook Evolution, teaching you to effectively write, design, and market your ebook, a joint production with Sticky Ebook author, Kelly Kingman.
Stock image resources:
Free:
Inexpensive:
More expensive:
Software for making 3D cover images:
OpenOffice Suite:
Picnik online photo retouching:
Part 1 of this interview is where Pamela tells us:
- How to design a cover for your book that grabs attention and makes people eager to read it
- How to choose the best fonts for your ebook
- How to use images to get your message across
- The best ways to lay out the pages of your book
Pamela Wilson has been helping small businesses create effective marketing materials since 1987. She’s received many awards for her work over the years. Her favorite accolade, though, is hearing that the event she did the marketing for had more turnout than ever before, or the product she helped re-position beat all previous sales records.
Her newest effort is the Big Brand System. It’s a blog that helps small business owners learn design and marketing basics so they can create some of their own marketing materials.
Her Big Brand System course launches soon, and it will be a hands-on environment where students can learn marketing and design basics and get their questions answered. People enrolled in the course will get access to templates they can use for common marketing items: brochures; website headers; stationery; e-books and more.
Pamela believes that no one is more passionate about marketing a small business than the owner of that business. With some basic training, anyone can learn enough to craft effective and beautiful marketing materials that reach out and grab the attention of the market they want to sell to.
Follow Pamela on twitter @pamelaiwilson
What would you like to learn about designing your ebook?
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Hey gals, another fine installation of your interview. I’m glad you broke it up into 2 sessions as one long interview with that much information, makes it hard to remember all of it. Great job!
Just one thing I need clarification on: Regarding the different formats for Kindle, iPad, iTunes, etc. and pdf, is it the EXPORT format you are talking about, or the actual page design that requires different formatting? If it is the export format, then could you use the same design and export it to different file types? Is there some sort of printer profile equivalent for each of the formats?
Have you heard of Smashwords.com? I haven’t been on the site much, but just read about it on Third Tribe forums. They seem to have some of this formatting thing worked out a bit for Kindle, ePub and the iPad, and they offer a free style guide. May be worth checking out for your writers Carole.
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This is so perfectly timed! I love it!
I’m a small business owner about to launch an ebook, so this is great. I’ll have to re-listen to this a couple of more times. Thank you so much!
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