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Generally the trend for many new books (not re-releases of older ones) are covers with very simple art, usually quite colorful, and the title in written huge letters all over the covers. I've read somewhere that this is due to e-commerce; no matter if you buy the print version or ebook version, you are most likely going to be seeing the cover by scrolling an online list of very small thumbnails of the covers, so the title needs to be readable at that small size.
I like many modern covers, but some are just lazy. A simple cover is okay, but it needs to not look like you paid someone on Fiverr $1 to do it.
The old style scifi covers appeal to me, a young person, on account of their retro charm, but I have no problem at all understanding why covers for new books don't look that way anymore.
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