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art makes your ebook appear more official and published like a traditional book, and that makes the ebook more appealing to readers. It will grab their attention when they first open the file to read.

Here's an example of basic cover art you could use with your ebook.

This simple example graphic is about the right size to place onto a web page where you will be selling or giving away the ebook. You may place a larger version of on the first page of the file that readers will open when they purchase your ebook. Your ebook cover will look more like a paper book, and therefore more appealing if your cover art also contains the title along the spine, and aesthetically pleasing designs, drawings, or photographs on the cover.
I've just put this simple picture here to give you a quick example of how it looks compared to text. You've been reading a bunch of words up until this point. Do you see how your vision is pulled toward the picture of the book? Even this bare bones cover grabs your attention doesn't it?
How to get a cover

There are a couple ways to get great cover art for your ebook. The first is to create it yourself. This is the most time-consuming of the options.

Hardest - do it yourself

To make your own cover, use your favorite drawing, painting or graphics software. Draw a rectangle. Add a book spine and pages to give your rectangle three dimensions to look like a closed or partially open book. Fill your drawing with interesting colors or patterns. Add your title and author byline to the front and spine. Embellish and revise ad nauseum.
If you're wondering which graphics program to use, there are many to choose from. Some standard office programs provide the ability to create graphics, including MS Word. More flexible, but more complicated graphics software you could use just as well includes Macromedia Fireworks, CorelDraw, or Adobe Photoshop. Professional cover art designers and graphics artists tend to use the pure, flexible, more complex, programs for their work.
Developing your cover from scratch is do-able, and even you could do it if you were so inclined. But I don't recommend the do-it-yourself approach. This is because, if you're short on software skills, artistic talent, or time or if you would rather focus your energies elsewhere, then there are more efficient ways to get cover art.

A couple shortcuts

Shortcuts to the build-it-from-scratch approach include using templates or using ebook cover art software.
Templates are available for purchase on the Internet, and some sites even offer free basic templates if you will link back to their site. Buying or borrowing templates will still require you to add your own text and additional graphic elements, so you'll still be investing some time, just a little less time than drawing each line of the picture from absolute zero.
I've listed some web sites where you can get free templates in the online resources chapter. Again, most free template sites will ask for a link displayed in your ebook.
Although I don't have any reason to advocate purchasing cover art templates, I've also included a couple websites that sell ebook cover templates, just FYI. Purchased templates should not require a link back, and if they do, then definitely don't buy those.
You can also buy specialty ebook cover software from a number of web sites. I don't recommend this either. The software generally

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