The Cover Problem for Self-Publishers

You've written the book. Now you need a cover. Every format needs its own — Kindle ebook, KDP paperback, hardcover, audiobook thumbnail. Each with different dimensions, different bleed requirements, different text placement. A professional designer charges $500-1,500 per cover. Canva gives you templates that look like every other self-published book on Amazon.

If you're publishing one book, you hire the designer. If you're publishing ten books a year — or running a publishing platform that handles hundreds of authors — manual design doesn't scale.

The Iteration Layer's Image Generation API generates print-ready book covers from a JSON template. Define your cover layout — background, title, author name, decorative elements, optional cover image — and generate it in one API call. Change the title, get a new cover. Change the format, get the right dimensions.…