52 Create a Book Cover

The Pressbooks User Guide provides information on creating a cover for your book, including:

To change the default book cover for your book in Pressbooks:

1. Design a cover image for your book that is at least 800px tall and which has an aspect ratio (width to height) between .66 and 1. We find that cover images that are 900 pixels wide and 1200 pixels tall (aspect ratio of .75) consistently look great in Pressbooks. You can generate this file using Pressbooks cover generator tool, hire a professional designer, or make one yourself with a free online design tool like Canva.
2. Once you have a cover image you’d like to use for you webbook home page and EPUB exports, enter your book dashboard and select ‘Book Info’
3. Scroll down to ‘Cover Image’. Click Choose File and locate your book cover file on your computer
4. Click Choose to upload that file into the Pressbooks system and click ‘Save’ to complete the cover image change.

If your cover image does not meet the required specifications (minimum height of 800 pixels and width to height ratio between .66 and 1), you will see an error message informing you of what you need to change. Make the necessary changes and try to upload the file again.

If successful, your most recent cover image will be saved to your media library and will be used as the cover image for your webbook and included as the internal cover image in your EPUB exports. Very large images will be automatically downsized to a maximum height of 1500 pixels.

University of Regina Branding

If you’re creating a book at the University of Regina, see these branding files (zip file will download).