These are affordable crowd-sourcing services.
If you have a small budget for a cover, check out 99 Designs or Crowdspring. You can choose from a variety of layouts, fonts, colors. You simply upload an image, insert text, and then watch it work its magic. If you don’t want to pay to have a cover made professionally, Amazon has a cover creator program that is free. Think about the person that is going to buy the book. KINDLE PERSONAL DOCUMENTS POSITION HOW TO
For example, a book on how to build a treehouse might have someone building a treehouse on its front cover. If you’re writing a how-to guide, use a picture of someone doing what you are writing about. Use ethereal images for a novel about ghosts. Have a lurking shadowy figure for horror/suspense thrillers. Have a hunky hero with a damsel in succumbing to his wiles for romance novels. And then try to capture the spirit of your book in the cover. Again, look at other successful Kindle ebooks in your genre to inspire your cover page. There is no universal guide to cover creation. You might think that your text will speak for itself, but without a suitable cover, people won’t purchase it. Since you’ll be selling your ebook, you’ll need to purchase the extended license. Most of the time, websites, like (one of the largest online stores of stock photos), will let you purchase images on an extended license.
If you purchase an image from a stock image repository online, make sure that you purchase the rights to resell the image. Even if alter other’s images and present them as your own, you could be sued for intellectual theft or copyright infringement. If you created the image in any way, you should be ok. If you took the picture, then you should be ok. X Research source If you use photographs, make sure that you have the rights to them. 
Some Kindle readers will either convert your image to a gray scale (16 shades to be specific) file or won’t show them at all.
Depending on your content, images may be desirable, but think about how they’ll show up on Kindles. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental."ĭecide if you want to use images.
If your work is fictional, include this statement also: "This is a work of fiction. Although every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this work, neither the author nor the publisher shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in this book." The information in this book is distributed on an "as is" basis, without warranty. Rather than use a trademark symbol with every occurrence of a trademarked name, names are used in an editorial fashion, with no intention of infringement of the respective owner’s trademark. Trademarked names appear throughout this book. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except in the case of a reviewer, who may quote brief passages embodied in critical articles or in a review. Here is a boilerplate statement you can use: You want to protect your work and by including a copyright page in your Kindle ebook, you’ll effectively be copywriting your ideas.
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