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Making Great eBook Covers on a Budget

One of the biggest things you can do to improve sales and give a professional appearance to your information products is have a great cover / product photo for your downloadable product. In the case of ebooks or PDFs, this means you need a cover you can use on your website, on your product in DPD to be shown in the cart and customer portal, and when marketing your product. In this post we'll go over some options for creating covers and show you a simple workflow to create your own. You have several options for creating ebook covers: 1. Pay a design professional to create one for you. If you're not a professional graphic designer then this will by far generate the best result. However, many ebook authors are bootstrapping with little to no budget, and designers can cost anywhere from $50-500 for professional cover design, putting it outside...

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DPD Update: PDF Stamping Improvements, Better Key Management, Minor Tweaks

This weekend we released a major update to the PDF stamping system as well as tweaked a few settings for vendors. PDF Stamper - Faster, Leaner, use Any PDF Version We have upgraded our PDF Stamping / Buyer Tracking system to be faster and use less memory on our server for each stamp operation. This means we can reliably stamp larger PDF files than our previously published 30MB recommendation. Our new recommended maximum file size is 75MB. If your file is larger please test to make sure we can open and stamp your PDF. We have also improved our PDF version support- we now support any PDF version, although you should always test advanced features added to PDFs (Reader Extended, Forms) before offering your product to the public. We do our best to support everything, but due to the million different combinations of features its hard to guarantee compatibility with...

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