Comments on: Book Covers: Some thoughts for Self-Publishers http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2008/07/06/book-covers-some-thoughts-for-self-publishers/ It's that simple -- and that hard. And that inescapable. Tue, 29 May 2012 15:22:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: eoinpurcell http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2008/07/06/book-covers-some-thoughts-for-self-publishers/#comment-52626 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:23:56 +0000 http://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/?p=670#comment-52626 Hey JL,

Thanks for the comment.

You are of course right that it’s a free market and that if a designer and author agree to a price higher than €900, so long as everyone is happy, excellent!

On the other hand, if one knows that the going rate for certain given tasks generally lies in the band I’ve suggested, then why not make it obvious that higher than that is either a special price or too much?

Eoin

]]> By: J Lynch http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2008/07/06/book-covers-some-thoughts-for-self-publishers/#comment-52625 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:16:39 +0000 http://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/?p=670#comment-52625 Hi Eoin,

I’m a regular reader of your blog and as a designer with clients within the publishing industry I was interested in your post about self-publishing and book covers.

I was just wondering how you came up with the figure of €900 as the maximum anybody should pay a designer for a book cover. Surely as it a free market the price is for negotiation between the author and the designer. And it is ultimately the author’s decision as to whether a particular designer is worth their fee.

I do realise that you are talking about the self-publishing market and that the economics are entirely different to the publishing house model but I sill think it’s misleading to quote such hard and fast numbers.

Thanks.

JL

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