Extensions of a cover or a jacket folded inwards at the front and back. They make a paperback look more finished.
A dust jacket laid flat: the flaps, the back cover, the spine and the front cover. Diagram: IN TEMPO, licence CC BY 4.0. Reuse this diagram
In practice
They stiffen a soft cover and give room for the blurb or the author’s biography. Their width is limited by the sheet the cover is printed on, so ask how wide they can be before laying them out. Keep them a little narrower than the cover panel, or their edge runs into the spine.
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