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Spine width and cover wrap calculator

Your spine depends on your page count.

Enter the trim size, page count and paper stock and this draws the cover Amazon expects, with every dimension you need to set up the file.

Scale drawing of a full book cover with the spine width marked
Spine width
0.4504 in
Full cover
12.7004 × 9.25 in
At 300 DPI
3810 × 2775 px
Front panel
6.125 × 9.25 in

Once you have the number, you still have to build the cover.

Back panel, spine, front, bleed and the barcode area, at 300 DPI, with nothing straying inside Amazon's safe margin. If you would rather not do that by hand: upload your artwork and your interior PDF and we build all of it, plus the Kindle cover, for $39. We read the page count off your interior, so the spine matches the book that actually prints.

See how it works · No artwork yet? Start here

The page count is not known until the interior is built.

Which is why so many covers come back rejected: the cover was made against an estimate, the finished book ran fourteen pages longer, and the spine was wrong by a hair. We are building a service that formats the manuscript and draws the cover in one pass, so the spine is measured rather than guessed. Leave an email and we will tell you when it opens.