“This cover feels simultaneously classic and entirely new. It’s slightly reminiscent of 1970s science fiction covers (albeit much more restrained), and yet I’ve never seen anything quite like it. That ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. Jul 19, 2019, 11:30am EDT Jul 19, 2019, 06:11pm EDT This ...

For a self-published book to sell, the cover is key. Regardless of how eloquent or entertaining its text may be, a book will have trouble catching a buyer’s eye or being taken seriously by reviewers ...

Every bookshop shelf tells the same visual story now. Romance, fantasy, literary fiction: the covers blur into one another, shaped by algorithms, stock imagery, and the tyranny of the thumbnail.

Editor and writer Mark Sinclair picks his favourite book cover designs of this year, plus opens with a few reflections on industry trends that have emerged in 2022 Last year I began CR’s round-up of ...