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Originally Posted by DrNefario
It seems fairly common with indies and small presses. I have four or five in my wishlists and none of them are from OpenRoad.
I don't really like it either. I get that it is showing that it's (metaphorically) a boxed set, but it looks bad when it's the thumbnail or the ereader shows the cover image when sleeping.
And there's also the thing where they make the books look like they're huge 800-page monsters and they turn out to be 60-page novellas.
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Yeah, I'm not a fan, to be honest. Like, I don't need some poor pseudo-3D representation of physical books on a shelf to remember that this is a digital copy of what was once a real book. It feels patronizingly skeuomorphic. My
guess is that they do this because they're too cheap to commission a new cover for the combined collection, and they don't want to just put the cover of the first book in the series on there, lest the buyer be confused about buying just one book or multiple books.