4 Free Websites to Create Mockups for Your e-books

Paul Enitan
2 min readJul 2, 2022
Photo by Domenico Loia on Unsplash

Mockups are great for showing real-life representations of digital products such as e-books, business cards, billboard posters, magazines, etc. Mockups help you show your audience or client how the digital product that you’ve created would appear if it is to be printed or applied to a physical item.

As an e-book creator, using mockups for your e-books can potentially help you make more sales because a strong fact is that people are more intrigued when they see a thing (especially if captivating enough) than if it’s not seen.

In this guide, you’ll get to know 4 free websites to create captivating mockups for your created e-books.

Adazing: Adazing is a free-to-use e-book mockup creation website with varieties of templates for paperback, hardcovers, journals, etc. The mockups are available as standalone book mockups and featured humans with book mockups.

Creating a mockup for your e-book is a simple process that involves selecting the sample mockup, uploading the e-book cover design, filling your email, and finally, downloading the e-book mockup to your device.

Adazing also has some advanced mockup samples such as video and webpage mockups that are available for use at a paid price.

Smartmockups: This is another great site for creating free mockups for e-books. There are several beautiful e-book mockups available on this site for both free and premium users. You can have mockups for softcover, hardcover, and paperback books and also in portrait and landscape orientations.

Aside from book mockups, there are also mockups for prints, media, t-shirts, phones, PC, etc. available on Smartmockups.

DIYBookCovers: DIYBookCovers is an entirely free book mockup creation site with no signup required. As soon as you land on the site, you’ll be prompted to select the kind of mockup that you need for your e-book — single (book only) or combination (book with tablet or smartphone or PC, or a combination of all). After this, you would upload your e-book cover design and finally get to download the mockup on the next page in either a .jpg or .png format.

Placeit: Placeit by Envato marketplace is a popular website for getting quality mockups such as books, t-shirts, business cards, smartphones, PC, etc., and not only that, it is also a library for getting sample logos, promotional videos, and designs.

This site has both free and paid plans for users. You can use it to create numerous amount of free mockups for your e-book.

This is my #20/365 article in 2022, I’m on a challenge to put up 365 articles here this year.

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Paul Enitan

A content writer | Talks (Make Money Online, AI, Tech, & Productivity tools for Business Growth). Available for freelance writing gigs >> paulganiyu99@gmail.com