E-books are among the fastest growing segments of the publishing industry. As long as there are self-publishing authors, e-books will exist. So how can you profit from this trend?

E-books need cover design just like print books. With traditional printing, the publishing house takes care of cover design. But the self-publishing author has to handle everything on their own.

You can produce beautiful e-book covers using any program which allows you to work with texts and graphics. The best programs for designing e-book covers, or any cover for that matter, are Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and QuarkXPress. If you have any of these programs, then you