Its formal matter-of-factness behaves as a front-facing mask that shields the inner lives and desires roiling behind it. ... If most book covers get five-second glances, spend 15 with this one.

Former House Speaker John Boehner is the latest Washington DC luminary with a tell-all book deal — and the cover art alone is worth the purchase price.

The book had stagnated for almost three decades before we republished it with a total redesign of its original 1958 cover. Shortly after the book was rereleased, we had publishing deals in Brazil ...

Next, Olsen advises checking out some online resources like The Book Cover Archive, The Casual Optimist, FaceOut Books, and Design Observer's 50 Books/50 Covers for more ideas.

It turns out an old saying might be wrong. You can judge a book by its cover, in a sense. Authors and cover designers say there’s a lot you can glean from a book’s front.

Slide the paper cover on so that book cover is inside the folds. How to make a paper bag textbook cover: Fold the edges to get proper length and fold the paper over the front cover, and then the back.

The new Modern Library edition of The Great Gatsby features a ’20s car emerging from the darkness, its headlights peering out of the cover like the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg. On Penguin ...

An ominous-looking character pops—literally—from the front of Malice, Chris Wooding’s YA novel about London teens who get trapped in a world that exists inside a horrifying comic book.