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Old 01-06-2014, 02:43 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
Here's a slew of them, 19 layout ideas that have practically become cliches:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/19-book-cover-cliches

And few are bad indie covers.
Apparently there is a lot of convergence in the book design world.
A goodly portion of those looked like they even used the same stock shot

Some were flipped/rotated
Some had artistic 'treatment' applied
But the base image was the same. Eg. Man by fence has the same water puddle

The cliche went so far as to position the Author and Title in the same locations (top vs bottom)
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