The choice of creating these e-covers is always left to you, you can either hire a professional to design your e-book cover or use a package of 'stock' covers that you can then alter or you can design them on your own.

Designing your own e-book requires software Photoshop, Paintshop Pro, or GIMP to name a few, and stock images, which you should carefully check the license of. If you're a photographer and have professional quality photos, or know one, they might be a good person to contact, otherwise look for sites that deal in royalty free images.

Now comes the major and crucial part of creating a e-book, e-book design involves checking perspectives, and matching up edges so that your binding, and front and back covers don't seem to have got overlapped, some graphics of e-books show them looking like REAL books, which is an illusion created in order to have huge 'sell' from a market perspective.

It's always human tendency to go behind the looks, so it is important to have attractive cover and packaging, you'll find that it's the single biggest 'make or break' for initial impressions. You can indeed find many packages out there that provide Photoshop action scripts and more to aid in the design of your E book these action scripts allow you to generate a cover without much complication in matching up edges and other tasks such as a perspective view that you might want for your e-book or stylized box design.

If you still feel the cover created is not up to the mark, you can hire a professional there are groups of skilled designers who design covers for very reasonable fees. Regardless of the niche you're launching into, professional and appealing e-book covers are a must if you expect to sell and sell well.

However, I suggest you to check out Photoshop actions scripts because you buy them once and you can whip out unlimited number of eCovers for all your websites. The scripts are easy to use and not only that, usually, you will also get a set of action scripts to design Software Boxes, CDs, DVDs, DVD Covers, Membership Cards, Ezines, Paperback Books, Hardback Books and Spiral Bound Reports.