Comments on: Gallery of knockout book covers: Lessons for E? http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/gallery-of-knockout-book-covers-lessons-for-e/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Steve Jordan http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/gallery-of-knockout-book-covers-lessons-for-e/comment-page-1/#comment-1038393 Steve Jordan Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:48:55 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/15/gallery-of-knockout-book-covers-lessons-for-e/#comment-1038393 The gallery serves as a reminder to me of how a book cover can be graphically descriptive of the book, even clever and eye-catching, and still very unattractive! I'd put many of the books in the gallery in that category, but that's just my taste. (I also love a good Doc Savage novel cover... so there you go.) It's so hard to distinguish a book cover these days... even if the novel is unique, it may be very difficult to find unique images to convey that. But no matter how unique, if the cover composition is downright annoying, I'm less likely to buy the book. The gallery serves as a reminder to me of how a book cover can be graphically descriptive of the book, even clever and eye-catching, and still very unattractive! I’d put many of the books in the gallery in that category, but that’s just my taste. (I also love a good Doc Savage novel cover… so there you go.)

It’s so hard to distinguish a book cover these days… even if the novel is unique, it may be very difficult to find unique images to convey that. But no matter how unique, if the cover composition is downright annoying, I’m less likely to buy the book.

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