Are covers important to you? Do they factor into your purchasing decision?
I'm trying to find an edition of Sons and Lovers that doesn't have an ugly as frick cover.
Are covers important to you? Do they factor into your purchasing decision?
Are covers important to you? Do they factor into your purchasing decision?
I'm trying to find an edition of Sons and Lovers that doesn't have an ugly as frick cover.
Yes, I judge books heavily by their covers.
If a book has an ugly cover I refuse to read it. (Call of the crocodile namely)
yeah, sometimes i spend several minutes looking at them on google images before sticking the one i like in calibre
>purchasing decision
lmao
>he doesn't associate the correct cover
disgusting
I'm more inclined to be interested in a book if it has a kino cover or a pengiun logo. If it's a classic novel just a cover that won't be embarrassing
I only buy penguin classics and NYRB. I read everything else with an e-reader
No, but they can lightly influence how I read a book. The portrait typically used on Stoner's cover is how I picture the protagonist, for instance.
lets make this thread DHL general.
There was a time i couldnt stop loving DHL, i devoted every teardrop from my young inceldom to him. It was nothing like being khhl virgin,reading DHL on train or tube, staring at those vicious vicious women. I could see them clear as if they were naked to me with the eyes of DHL.
never read picrel though.
For a whole minute I was wondering why you would dedicate your teardrops to an international package delivery service.
lol same
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yeah, we figured it out, chief
Good covers have been tailor-made to draw the attention of their target demographic. It's a type of marketing. So yes, when looking for a new book in person, I focus first on covers before anything else. If I already know what book I want, I don't really care unless the cover is stunningly ugly. I do search for the best covers for my e-books, though, and swap them out as needed. No reason not to.
Good books (I mean the physical books and editorial quality) have a standard bookcover by collection. The only non text allowed are a collection logo and perhaps a portrait of the author.
Pic relate is basically the gold standard for book design. A flexible leather cover, title only on the spine, portrait relegated to the dustcover.
What's that hand-thing in bottom right?
It's something to hold the books vertical without spine damage in unfilled bookshelf rows.
What are the books in that pic?
What would a Wordsworth Bible cover look like?
Only the right one.
If it’s got cheaply photoshopped or ‘corporate’ art, it tended to also have the writing according quality, so yes. Paintings for covers are especially great in setting an aesthetic or ‘feel’ when reading
Yes and yes.
I prefer no pictures. Old hard bounds are nice. I prefer simple designs to images on more contemporary books.
Agreed
I'm guessing covers matter more than people like to admit. The difference in sales that a cover makes is nontrivial. The cover as well as the title give the impression of the book's contents and then the first 13 lines is the next impression, the blurb on the back to a lesser extent. This is assuming someone wasnt recommended the book by word of mouth which is probably the biggest impression. Lasting impression all comes down to the quality of the story itself.
For fiction there is also brand recognition from a collection or editor.
For non fiction you can have a 99% accurate assessment by reading the table of contents.
Wordsworth Classics editions became too expensive in my country. They now cost the same as a Penguin Classic lol
Check all the editions listed on worldcat and all editions uploaded on archive.org, browse Abebooks, Ebay, Google images, etc.
There's a sales technique along those very lines, and perhaps the grand unifying theory of advertising, that a Good veneer can sell a crappy product almost as well as as a good product, and presumably vice versa.
Here's my ebook with a crappy cover, perhaps it would sell better if I made the cover alluring:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B4M98NTH