11 Toolkit Explained

What is the toolkit?

The Open Textbook Cover Toolkit has been created to give authors options to create book covers for the open textbooks they are writing and/or publishing. This toolkit has been created by BCcampus and released with a CC BY licence.

Book cover elements

Essential items for your book cover are:

  • Title
  • Author(s)

Additional elements:

  • Photo
  • Graphic

Other items that could be include:

  • Tag line
  • Logo

Contents of the toolkit

The toolkit contains three book cover styles to choose from:

  • Simple
  • Graphic
  • Photo

A template file for each of these styles has been provided for you to copy or modify.

Template attribution statement

The textbook cover templates have been designed by Robyn Humphreys, Digital Designer for BCcampus, and are covered by the CC BY licence under which this guide is released. It is recommended that the attribution statement for the template is placed on the textbook’s copyright page as follows:

The template used to create this textbook’s cover is by BCcampus and used under a CC BY 4.0 International Licence.

License

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Print-on-Demand Guide Copyright © 2016 by Lauri M. Aesoph is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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