Lulu’s major business is publishing and printing books. If you are a newbie author, then Lulu gives you free book publishing option and provides you a free Lulu ISBN number. Whether the book is a cook book or, poetry book, novel book, photo book, Lulu fulfills the need of every type of author. They offer their extended service to provide their online tools to design your book cover. If your book is a paperback or hardcover, Lulu has a solution for both. After publishing the book online, Lulu prints the book occasionally only when author or any reader places order for the book. After printing, Lulu ships the book to the delivery address within time limit and under standard charges.
If you are an author having less design sense, then you may face problems to design Lulu book cover. Lulu’s default tools will give you a sample ebook background and some default colors and fonts. You can’t customize it unless you have book cover design knowledge and software.
If you want to print your book through Lulu, then book covers should be designed according to the book size. And the designer must leave space for gutter margin of the book’s front and back cover image. All the images and texts should be within the allowed book cover margin specified by Lulu. Generally, authors who themselves design their book cover, don’t follow this rule and their content on book cover is cut while the book is printed.
The allowed area for putting contents will vary depending on the size of your book page. For example, Lulu has varied book sizes like pocket book, digest, A5, US Trade, Royal, Comic Book, Crown Quarto, Small Square, Large Hardcover, A4, Large Square, US Letter, Landscape. Depending of type book page size, the area for inserting book text, images will be different.
A custom Lulu book cover designer will quickly understand what kind of book cover you want on Lulu.com and will nicely design it. He will take care of the binding margin and insert content within the feasible region. Also a custom book cover designer has lots of stock photographs which he may possibly use on your book cover. If you have written a series of books / ebooks, the designer can design it at a cheaper rate. That is the benefit of designing the Lulu book/ ebook cover with a graphic designer.
You may create a blog or website for the promotion of your books and ebooks in the future. In case, you are selling an ebook through your blog or website, then a designer can make nice, professional 3D looking ebook cover on your blog or website. A good designer can make a unique creative design for you that will stand out from the clutter and draw attention from more visitors. Getting service from an expert Lulu ebook cover designer will be great for your present and future ebook design and promotions.
