Book design has been part of my roster of design services for quite some time. The book publishing industry has seen some incredible changes over the past 20+ years since the first book cover design project came my way. Back then, the size of the book was all I needed to design a cover. Unless an author was lucky enough to have a book pre-released as a hardback and then soft cover, or even more elaborate, as a box set, I simply had one final layout for a cover. Self-publishing was rare. Publishing houses were the places authors found the greatest successes and financial gains for their manuscripts if they were lucky enough to get into one. It was (and still is) like winning a lottery to get published. Making it onto the NYT’s list or being awarded some other esteemed recognition was like winning the mega millions lottery.