Two seconds. That's roughly how long your cover has to make someone stop scrolling on Amazon and actually look. In a bookshop it's even less, a spine catching the eye, a front cover doing its job before the reader has consciously decided to pick it up. A cover that doesn't work in those two seconds is a sale that doesn't happen, and no amount of good writing makes up for it.
The covers that work aren't accidental. They're built around a deep understanding of genre, reader expectations, and what makes one book stand out from the fifty others sitting in the same category. Typography, colour, imagery, composition, every decision is deliberate, and every deliberate decision serves the book.
At European Publishing House, we design covers from scratch for fiction, non-fiction, children's books, academic titles, and everything that sits between those categories. There are no templates being pulled from a library and personalised with your title. No designs recycled from a previous project with the name changed. Every cover starts with your book specifically, what it's about, who it's for, and what it needs to communicate before a reader has read a single word.
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Every format your book needs, designed by people who understand how covers actually sell.
Your eBook cover needs to work at thumbnail size on Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, and Google Play, often no bigger than a postage stamp on a mobile screen. We design eBook covers that are bold, clear, and genre-appropriate at every size, with typography and imagery that reads instantly even when scaled down. We work across fiction, non-fiction, business books, self-help, memoirs, and academic titles for eBook cover design.
A print book needs a full wraparound design, front cover, back cover, and spine all working together as a single piece. We design print covers for paperback and hardback editions across all genres, accounting for spine width based on your page count and ensuring all files meet the exact technical specifications of your chosen printer or platform. The result is a cover that looks professional on a shelf, in a hand, and in a photograph.
The spine is what readers see first when your book is shelved. The back cover is where a browser decides whether to open it. We design both with the same care as the front, compelling back cover copy layout, author bio placement, barcode positioning, and spine typography that’s legible at any width. Every element is considered, not filled in as an afterthought.
Children’s books live and die by their illustrations. The art has to carry the story, work for the age group, and be the kind of thing a child wants to look at again and again. Our children’s book illustration services in Europe cover picture books, early readers, and middle grade titles, full interior illustration as well as cover design. We match illustrators to projects based on style, tone, and the specific age group you’re writing for.
If you’re publishing more than one book, series branding matters enormously. Readers need to recognise your books instantly across a series, and retailers and algorithms both respond to consistency. We develop series branding that ties your covers together visually, consistent typography, colour palette, layout structure, and design language, while giving each individual title its own identity within that framework.
A great cover is the starting point for your marketing materials, not the end of them. We create promotional graphics for social media, Amazon advertising, book launch campaigns, and author websites, all built from your cover design to ensure consistency across everything readers see. Whether you need Instagram graphics, Facebook ad creatives, or banner images for your website, we produce materials that look like they belong together.
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A great cover communicates genre, tone, and audience before a reader has read a single word. It tells a thriller reader this is for them. It tells a romance reader the same. It positions your book correctly in the market and gives readers the visual cues they've come to expect from the category you're publishing in, while still standing out from everything around it.
Getting that balance right takes more than good design skills. It takes an understanding of what's selling in your genre, what readers respond to, and how a cover translates across formats, from a thumbnail on a phone screen to a full wraparound in print.
Our design team at European Publishing House works across every genre and every format. We start by understanding your book properly, the story, the tone, the audience, and the feel you're going for, before a single concept is developed. You'll see multiple directions, give feedback, and we keep refining until the cover is exactly right. Unlimited revisions, always.
Cover design costs depend on what your book needs. An eBook cover for a straightforward non-fiction title is a different project from a full illustrated wraparound for a fantasy novel or a complete illustration set for a children's picture book. The complexity of the design, the number of formats required, and whether illustration is involved all affect the pricing.
What stays the same regardless of project size is our revision policy, unlimited revisions until your cover is exactly what you want. We don't charge extra for going back and forth until it's right.
Get in touch and tell us about your book. We'll talk through what your cover needs and give you a clear, honest quote built around your specific project.
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We publish your book across every major platform, Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and 150+ retailers worldwide. We handle the entire process from file submission to going live, including ISBN registration, metadata setup, and platform-specific requirements. You keep your rights. You keep your royalties.
Learn moreGood editing isn't one thing, it depends on where your manuscript is. We offer developmental editing for books that need structural and narrative work, copy editing for grammar, consistency, and clarity, and line editing for sentence-level flow and voice. A lot of manuscripts need more than one pass, and we'll tell you honestly which type of editing yours needs before we quote you anything.
Learn moreIf the ideas are there but the words aren't coming, our ghostwriters can write the whole thing for you. Fiction, literary fiction, romance, thrillers, fantasy, memoirs, business books, self-help, every genre, every tone. You brief us, we write it, you own it entirely. Complete confidentiality, always.
Learn moreWe design covers across every category, fiction, non-fiction, children's books, illustrated titles, series, and everything in between. That includes front covers, full print wraparounds, spine design, back cover copy layout, and interior illustrations where the book calls for it. You get multiple concepts to choose from and revisions until it's right.
Learn moreWe format your manuscript into every format it needs to be published in, PDF for print, ePub for Apple Books and Kobo, MOBI for Kindle, and any other format your chosen platforms require. Clean layouts, proper chapter breaks, correct margins, and files that pass every retailer's technical review first time.
Learn morePublishing is only half the job. We build marketing around your specific book, Amazon listing optimisation, social media campaigns, email marketing, book launch planning, paid advertising, and review outreach. Every strategy is built around getting your book in front of the readers who are actually looking for it.
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Get in TouchBook cover design costs in Europe vary depending on the type of cover, the genre, and what's involved in producing it. A straightforward eBook cover sits at a different price point from a fully illustrated children's book cover or a complete series branding package. Most professional designers charge per project rather than per hour, and the complexity of the brief is what drives the cost. We don't quote without understanding your book first, get in touch and we'll give you a clear, transparent price based on exactly what your cover needs.
A professional cover does several things at once. It signals genre clearly enough that the right readers recognise it immediately. It uses typography, imagery, and colour in a way that's consistent with what's selling in that category. It works at every size, from a small thumbnail on a phone to a full-size print edition. And it stands out from the titles around it without looking like it doesn't belong in the same genre. The difference between a professional cover and an amateur one is usually obvious within seconds, even to readers who couldn't explain exactly why.
A standard book cover design typically takes two to three weeks from briefing to final files, accounting for concept development, your feedback, and revision rounds. More complex projects, full wraparound print covers, children's book illustrations, or complete series branding, take longer, usually three to five weeks depending on the scope. If you have a specific launch deadline, let us know at the start and we'll work to a timeline that fits. Rush turnarounds are possible in some cases, though we'd always rather give a cover the time it deserves.
Yes. We provide final files in every format your book needs, optimised eBook covers sized for Amazon KDP, Apple Books, Kobo, and Google Play, as well as full print-ready wraparound files built to your printer's exact specifications. If you're publishing in both formats, which most authors do, we design both from the start so they're consistent and properly sized for each use. You won't need to take a file to a third party to get it reformatted.
Yes, unlimited revisions, always. We keep refining until the cover is exactly what you want. That's not a marketing line; it's genuinely how we work. You'll see multiple initial concepts, give feedback on the direction you prefer, and we develop that direction through as many rounds as it takes. Nothing is finalised until you're completely happy with it. Your cover represents your book, and it needs to be right.
Every book we publish gets the same level of care, whether it's your first or your fifth. We don't consider our job done until your book is out in the world and you're happy with it. That's been our standard since day one.
