Simple eBook covers with PowerPoint

I recently released a short report, but based on the target customer I could get away without having a cover for it. I thought about making the sales page more appealing by adding an ebook cover, but I didn’t want to pay a professional and I don’t have PhotoShop or any other graphic editing programs. So, I used good old Microsoft PowerPoint and this is the result….

Not too shabby. I could do a little more work with the actual cover design, but you get the point.

I used a rectangle for the main page and parallelograms for the other pages.

There are some other free template out there, but they’re tilted in 3-D and difficult to edit without photoediting software. With this “template,” I could regular text boxes to add text to the cover.

Here’s a blank one. If you think you can use it, click for the larger version, then right click it and choose “Save Target As…”