So, popular or semi-popular books with pretty book covers, does your country make it look good or fails at it?
Thoughts and feelings?
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Bonus Questions:
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Which book has the prettiest book cover that drew you in fast?
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Which book has a book cover that your eyes hurt because it was pretty awful or jarring to look at?
NOTE: We are only talking about book covers here and nothing else?
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I don’t pay much attention to cover’s origins.
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Answer the bonus questions!
- Hardback collector’s edition for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
- Any of the Guides for Dummies.
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I’ve seen those YouTubers who compare book covers from US vs UK, and sometimes the US version is better and sometimes the UK version is better. What I want to know is why do different countries have different covers in the first place?! It would seem to be more profitable if a book was instantly recognizable anywhere.
I mean, I know the art department has to come up with several different covers so the boss can pick the one most likely to attract readers, but why not use the same cover everywhere? The more often you see a book, the more likely you are to become curious about it and check it out. So why sabotage that by showing the same book with different covers, especially now that the internet allows us to see the alternate covers for the same book anyway?
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And why do they replace gorgeous covers with a hideous ones? Like this book originally had a nice cover…
And now it has this one…
So I’m not going to buy it even though it’s on sale for $1.99 right now since I don’t want to look at that on my kindle every day. Evidently Maggie O’Farrell is on a quest to replace all her nice covers. Hamnet originally had this cover, which I loved:
And now it has this…
And I’m getting tired of looking at it. I really need to read that book just to get it out of my sight once and for all. That’s one advantage of print books vs. ebooks: you can always make a jacket for a dead tree book, but you’re stuck looking at ebook covers until they’re read and off your screen. Publishers, in my opinion, are flipping morons. (-᷅_-᷄๑)
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Different tastes. Apparently UK readers generally don’t like people or faces on the book cover.
But also the UK Marriage Portrait cover is beut. The hardback is even better. I will die on this hill.
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Really?
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Which is the UK cover for the Marriage Portrait? And if one country doesn’t like human faces, then why doesn’t every country just use that same cover without people or faces on it? It makes no sense to me to have books that readers don’t connect with because it has a different cover than they’re used to, especially when so many readers say, “Omg the cover in that other country is so much better than the cover in mine!” ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯
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Can’t say that I’ve noticed…
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Yeah something about reading on public transport (which is a big thing here) and feeling self-conscious or awkward about faces and gaudy book covers or something 
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Beats me. It’s all about getting the books into readers’ hands. Americans like catchy covers maybe. And also artist/art licenses differ between regions.
It’s this cover:
You have to see it person to appreciate it lol. The hardbacks are green naked, with a gold-foil snake, or red with a gold-foil tiger if you get the Waterstones edition.
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Ah, okay.
I don’t really pay attention to covers ;-;
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Want to give the bonus questions a shot?
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I really don’t care about covers
Still don’t really care about covers
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Just to clarify, the only time I really care about book covers are when I’m literally designing them for my works. That’s it. Otherwise, I honestly don’t care
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Alright.
I suppose the contents are just far more important than the covers for you, right?
So, I appreciate that though. LOL!
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Yup
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Cool beans!
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