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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Simple and really ugly. Just put some text on the cover like a subtitle that says box set 1-5.
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Once again you fail to separate personal taste from the technical flaws (or advantages). I know you have been down in the writers corner where we have commented upon proposed covers by self publishing Authors.
Ugly is in the eye of the beholder (and the person writing the check).
In the old days, the dust jacket/paperback cover tried to convey something about the content to make you pick up the book. Remember when SF always had a Rocket or a BEM on the cover (and a scantily dressed girl)
HOW do you convey the topic in
one picture, when there are 5+ books, each with a tale?
The Boxed view conveys 1)there are N volumes. 2)the spines have the individual Titles. 3)the BOX end cap has a
general picture about the series or collection (I hated book stores that simply shelved books Spine Out. Not only did you get a crick in the neck walking down the aisle, reading titles, you had to juggle what you had in hand, just to pull out the book for a further peek.
BTW There are some really ugly (mostly generic looking) covers being used by some well known authors on books they got the rights back from the publishing house.
Great covers do take a different talent that the of the written word. Very few have both