Well, they say that you can't judge a book by its cover however we know that everyone does it anyway. Indeed, I think this is something that I have recently relearned. You see, as an online article author with a number of articles posted online, I thought I would take my writing skills and put together some e-books and offer them to Kindle users. Indeed, at first it was slow going, and I could understand why, but it gets right back to the fact that people do judge a book by its cover even an electronic book. Okay so, let's talk about this for a second shall we?
You see, if you have Microsoft Word creating a cover for your Kindle e-book may not be as hard as you think. That's because your Microsoft program also has a component program called; Microsoft Paint. Did you know that you can take the first page of your e-book along with any pictures on that page, and copy that onto your clipboard, and paste it into Microsoft Paint? It's true, and it is really easy to do. That is once you have the perfect cover created in word, which is already part of your completed e-book.
Once you have copied and then pasted it into Microsoft Paint, then you should press; Control A, which will expand the borders to all edges of your Microsoft Paint file. Next, you should close that out and save it to the same folder where you have your e-book. Once you have that saved, then you can re-open it as a picture, or a JPEG. This is the file type that is required when posting an e-book cover into Kindle or Amazon. Once you open it you can then modify this picture by pressing; "FIX" and then reformatting the picture to your liking.
You will be able to modify the borders, change the contrast and brightness, and play around with the color a little bit. Best of all, you can do this without buying any more software programs to load on your computer. Why not try this right now, while you are still reading this article?
Take the first page of your e-book, and copy that single page into your "paint program" on Microsoft. And then go ahead and save it to whichever folder you wish. Now go open it again and play around with it, making slight modifications. Do you see how easy this is? I'm glad I was able to learn this the hard way so I could bring it to your attention.
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative eBooks on E-Books. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/
