• daisy lazarus@lemmy.world
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    I think the point is that the cover is never guaranteed to accurately represent the book.

    Quality of cover =/= quality of book

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      Although, I’ll never buy a book where the author’s name is in bigger, bolder font than the title of the book.

      I hate that trend in cover design and I refuse to support it.

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        DEAN KOONTZ
        Newbury Award Winner
        New York Time Best-Seller
        The Lake Boat
        First time in paperback!
        With a Foreward by David Baldacci

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          Definitely still see it for Stephen King at least, but frankly I’d be creeped out if I saw his name small at this point…

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            I thought the point of the dust jacket is to make books look shabby when they get crinkled and torn, so you can take it off and find a perfectly serviceable cover underneath.

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          That’s one of the purposes of a cover, you could achieve it without any design effort.

          But that’s not the point, not the main purpose of a book cover. Your previous poster is right, the cover is advertising the book.

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            The “cover art***” sells it, then. They were trying to be funny I think lol