Change the cover type of a BookWright book

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If you don't see the cover type you want when uploading your BookWright book, or when you're ordering the book, head back to BookWright and create the cover type that you're missing. Here's how:

1. Open the book in BookWright.

2. If you'd like to re-use your existing cover design for you other cover types, first click on your existing cover in the upper left corner, above page 1. Then right-click the existing cover and select Replicate design on all covers. (You can skip this step if you plan to create a totally different design for the new cover).

3. Now select a new cover type: from the menu at the top, click Papers>Format>Change Cover then select the cover type you want.

Not all cover types are available for all books. For example, our Large Square and Large Landscape books aren't available in softcover, and our Layflat books are only available as hard cover ImageWrap.

4. Once you've selected the new cover type you'll see its layout in the top left corner, above page 1. Click that layout to design the new cover.

If you forget which cover type you're looking at just go back to Papers/Format>Change cover type and see which cover has the checkmark next to it; that's the one you've got open.

5. When you're finished designing and reviewing each cover design click Preview in the top right. Be sure to use the Preview as feature in the upper left to review each cover type.

6. Click Review and Upload.

7. You'll be prompted to choose the cover type you want to upload.

  • You can upload one cover type at a time so you may need to repeat this process for additional covers.
  • Each different cover type is treated as a new and separate version of the book. So if you upload all three cover types you'll have three new books uploaded to your My Projects page.

8. Walk through the remaining steps to spell-check your work, review the cover and page designs, and then upload the book.

9. Once the book is uploaded you should see a page from which you can order your book. You can also sign in to your Blurb account and go to your My Books page and click the Order Book button next to the book you just uploaded. Remember, each cover type requires a separate upload.

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