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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I can (maybe) see a false air of "legitimacy" being gained by emulating popular covers. A "This book looks a lot like these other ones I liked--maybe I'll give it a shot" kind of thing. But I just can't see a lot of readers being outright tricked into buying the wrong book.
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I agree, and I think that that's exactly what Delphi are going for here: playing off Penguin Classics' reputation as perhaps the best-known range of classics in the English-language publishing world. A "we look like them so perhaps people will think we're just as good" thing.