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title: "Back cover | Printing glossary | IN TEMPO"
description: "The back face of the cover. It carries the blurb, the barcode, the price and often the publisher’s logo; the front cover is the first."
url: "https://www.intempo.fr/en/glossaire/quatrieme-de-couverture/"
lang: "en"
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# Back cover

Also called fourth cover, outside back cover

The back face of the cover. It carries the blurb, the barcode, the price and often the publisher’s logo; the front cover is the first.

![Diagram of a dust jacket laid flat: flap, back cover with the blurb and the barcode, spine, front cover, flap. The flaps fold inwards.](https://www.intempo.fr/diagrammes/en/dust-jacket-flaps.png)

A dust jacket laid flat: the flaps, the back cover, the spine and the front cover. Diagram: IN TEMPO, licence [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en). [Reuse this diagram](https://www.intempo.fr/en/reutiliser-nos-schemas/)

## In practice

It is the side a reader turns over in a bookshop, and the one where the technical constraints gather. Reserve the barcode’s space before laying out the text, on a light background, clear of the flaps and the spine. If the cover is laminated or varnished, check on the proof that nothing hinders the barcode.

## Related terms

- [ISBN](https://www.intempo.fr/en/glossaire/isbn/)
- [EAN barcode](https://www.intempo.fr/en/glossaire/code-barres-ean/)
- [Flaps](https://www.intempo.fr/en/glossaire/rabats/)

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