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What a cover actually costs across six live price pages, what the money buys that a generator doesn't, and the one job you take on when you skip the designer.
Why AI book cover generators get text wrong: the two places letterforms break, what a font file carries that a generated image cannot, and what to do.
The four pre-launch checks a designer runs on a cover: the 115-pixel render, the genre lineup, the one question worth asking, and when a $15 poll pays.
The ebook pixel sizes, print bleed and file limits KDP publishes, and the places its own help pages state two different numbers for one requirement.
What AI book cover generators do well, where the type still breaks, and the KDP specs no prompt can know, from a designer who set covers by hand.
The four routes to an indie book cover, what each really costs, the KDP specs each one has to clear, and the copy count that pays a cover back.
A reader decides whether to click your book in about the time it takes to scroll past it, and the cover does most of the talking. Here's how indie authors get a genre-correct cover that earns the click, with no designer and no design skills.
