Importance of book cover
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Importance of book cover
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Funny but sometimes I'm sad when they reissue different book covers...I think they recently did that with Harry Potter. Maya Angelou's books used to have some beautiful pictures of her from the time they were written. Many years later they changed them all.
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I guess it's fairly obvious that if it didn't have an impact on sales publishers wouldn't spend vast amounts on the cover artwork.
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it's like playing the lotto - sometimes I win (like with Twilight), sometimes I really don't.
I've also avoided books based on the cover. Didn't even bother picking them up to see what it's about. I'm sure I'm missing out
now Cover is not the only way I pick out books, but if I'm just perusing the bookstore - obviously covers are what sell the book. Catch my eye, I'll pick it up... plain and simple
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Many of the "classics" have pretty boring and nondescript covers, which I think can discourage the younger reader. I have a copy of Little Women that has a bright, attractive cover which I think would be more likely to draw in a child or teenager. I think it would be a good idea to revamp some of the covers of the classics so the younger audience won't just look at them and think "Oh, that looks boring."
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I am much the same! Now the cover doesn't matter to me. If it gets a good rep or its about a topic I enjoy I'll give it a go no matter how unappealing it may look initially.aparajita ghosh wrote:I have missed many a good book because I didn't like the cover.
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I think what most people do is that the try to minimise the false positives. Meaning, it matters a lot more to them if the pick up a book that they don't enjoy, than it does if they miss a book that they would have enjoyed.
In this sense, a reader tries to pick up a book with a cover they like (and then if they're careful read through it a bit to see if they actually like it). So from the perspective of someone designing the book the cover is really important. It's the face of the book, so to speak. It's like dressing well for a job interview or a first date really.
On the other hand, from the reader's perspective, it doesn't seem like the cover matters so much... because it doesn't so much effect the experience itself as help decide *which* experience we have.
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