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.
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)
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
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.
I know. And frankly, I'm not even the worst coder when it comes to graphic design. I know enough to see that _something_ is off with the cover, but not enough to figure out what ;-).
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.
The photograph was chosen because I could not find other computer books with that somewhat harsh color scheme, and you gotta stand out :)
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.
It's the eBook cover for Kobo which I used there. Thanks, I'll go and fix it tonight.
It's more likely that they focused on the book's content rather than the cover art for 5 years
I have not said that he should spend five years focusing on the cover of the book.