Series books for Kindle - Do you differentiate your covers or keep them identical?

by droog
4 replies
I'm trying to brand a number of nonfiction books in the same niche but covering different topics. I know when people hear "series books" they think fiction but all my books compliment each other so I kind of think of them as a series.

For people who have series books (fiction or nonfiction) do you use the identical cover and just change the titles or keep the design layout but change images, etc?

Just wondering how people have done this or have experimented or ran any tests and found any interesting results.

Thanks in advance for any info...
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  • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
    My covers are all similar. Several are a series but they all have the same feel to them. People would be able to look and if they'd seen my stuff they'd likely recognize my other stuff. They were deliberately designed that way. To answer your question, they're different but all have some aspects that are the same.
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    • Profile picture of the author aprilm
      For series books I always use book covers that are similar to one another but slightly different in wording (obviously) and color variation. Font, author name placement, title placement, and series name placement all stay the same. In my opinion, keeping them similar and recognizable is good for branding.

      I haven't tested otherwise.
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  • Profile picture of the author droog
    I figured it would be something like that. Each cover somewhat distinctive but with enough identical traits that people would easily recognize they came from the same source.
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    • Profile picture of the author LilBlackDress
      Branding is easy to do with similar elements such as adding a distinct mark to all of them, using the same people in different poses etc. I would not however, use the exact same cover on all of them. Unite them but make them distinct.
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