I have some feedbak, nothing major, but I would say that a professional designer could help you improve the book cover. Right now somebody with professional experience in graphic design --or a good eye for design-- can probably see details in it that could be improved. It's a pity if you have worked on this for five years, not to present it in the best possible way.

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cdegroot an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Yup. I'm not happy with the design. Some promised assistance fell through and so I had to scramble last minute. I've seen worse though :)

(Specific tips on improving the current design welcome, most stores allow edits)

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emigre an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Definitely don't worry too much about it. I did not want to sound negative, it's just the first thing that came to mind as feedback. I haven't had the time to read the book, only had time to look at the cover, haha. :D

	▲	emigre 44 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		When one learns about graphic design, one ends up obsessing about these kinds of things. "These text lines need a tiny little bit more of space"... "Those margins are slighly too small"... It's just job conditioning... At some point in my life I was playing the game of trying to recognize the fonts I was looking at in the adds and signs as I walking down the street.

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emigre an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, yes, definitely, it's okay. I like the design, actually. :) But it would be nice to have the touch of a professional, if you can.

I would say that your choice of cover design as a whole denotes elegance and taste. Look at the cover design of graphic designer Manuel Estrada:

https://estradadesign.eu/project/alianza-editorial/

Your cover remind me of that kind of style.

There are some details about the typeface, layout, and the photograph that, as somebody with a certain background in graphic design, I can perceive as a little bit off.

	▲	cdegroot 44 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The photograph was chosen because I could not find other computer books with that somewhat harsh color scheme, and you gotta stand out :)

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wk_end an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The cover design is nice enough IMO, but it definitely looks like a self-help book or something rather than a technical monograph.

The image on the site has incorrect capitalization ("A History of..."), though the one on Amazon appears to be corrected.

	▲	cdegroot 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's the eBook cover for Kobo which I used there. Thanks, I'll go and fix it tonight.

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DerArzt 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's more likely that they focused on the book's content rather than the cover art for 5 years

	▲	emigre an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I have not said that he should spend five years focusing on the cover of the book.