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How do I upload a book cover picture for my self-published book?
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Susan
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Jul 08, 2015 12:37PM
I was wondering how to upload a picture of the front cover of my self-published book. Obviously right now it looks like a generic rectangle. :)
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Yes, I need to know this as well. I'm sure there are plenty of people wondering the same thing.
I did it for 2 self-published books a couple of years ago.
It was so easy I can't remember how I did it.
Your image needs to be a .jpg. (I'm assuming you have an electronic image of the cover.) I believe their file size limit is 5 Mb, but you'll have to check on that. Then just follow the instructions on your author dashboard. It's not very difficult.
If no cover exists then you can do this by selecting the edit link on the book page.Edit link is found on the right of the page, above the buy copy buttons.
Once on the book edit page, the upload of covers is in the top right hand corner.
Or you can post in the GR Librarians group providing a link to the book and the cover from a non bookseller site (although amazon is acceptable)
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
If a cover already exists then you will have to ask in the Librarians group as GR does not change covers on published books, but add new alternate cover editions
I just poked around the book details section until I found something that said "add cover," I clicked on the "browse," button and uploaded my copy of the cover that I had on my computer.
