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Here's another Elance job I worked on for an author who is doing a series of e-books on World War II correspondents. It seems like most of the book design jobs posted on Elance are for e-books. They might be the coming thing in publishing. Amazon.com said that it sold 143 e-books for every 100 hardcopy books in the second quarter of this year. Wikipedia lists over 20 different electronic book formats, but there are three major types: PDF, ePub, and Kindle/Mobipocket. Only the last two are suitable for the various handheld readers and the iPad, because their pages will scale to any screen size. That makes them a little more difficult for the publisher to format (although, if you are laying out a book and you know from the start that you will also be making an ePub version, you can work with that in mind and the process will be simpler). A lot of the time when people sell e-books from their websites, they are offering PDF versions of print books, which are very simple to produce, but don't scale on smaller screens. Supposedly you can upload a PDF to Amazon's Digital Text Platform and their software will reformat it as a Kindle e-book, but it turned into a pretty big mess the one time I tried it.

Here are four more covers I did for the same author. I used the original file as a template and just plugged in different photographs and changed the titles.