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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Man, those covers are awful.
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Making decent covers for books seems to be something that died off in the early 2000s at the latest. Even major publishers often use clipart dreck for reissues of major books. (And sometimes for new books.) I end up finding and using covers from the 90s or earlier for most of the scifi books I add to Calibre. But it's not limited to scifi, I was adding
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH and its two sequels to Calibre yesterday and finding decent covers was a huge pain in the ass, especially for the two sequels. (I mean, look at the cover
Amazon has for the second book. The mouse/rat on the bottom left probably gives kids nightmares.)
Frequently I have to find a photo of a physical book from an eBay listing, then use Photoshop to warp it into a proper rectangle, clean up major damage to the cover and redo levels to make whites & blacks normal again.
I guess it's just part of cost-cutting and beancounters think readers don't care about the book cover...
