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Originally Posted by maddz
For ebooks, I prefer the plainish graphic covers, especially for an e-ink reader. Fancy colour are a bit pointless. As long as the contrast is good in b&w, a plain graphic with the title in a decent-sized font is OK by me.
For a pbook on the other hand, there’s nothing to beat a nice cover, especially by Charles Vess or Michael Whelan.
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The original cover art for The Eye of the World was Sweet! (i.e. the cover artist was Darrel Sweet
). I liked the original cover art, it was part of why I bought the book back when it first came out. The style reminds me of Modesitt's Magic of Recluce series.