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Old 06-06-2020, 01:08 PM   #3976
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That's a new low even by modern-day crappy book cover standards.
Honestly, I prefer the old cover over all these 'modernized' covers. Helps me find the books when scrolling through the cover view on Calibre.
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Old 06-06-2020, 02:10 PM   #3977
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Honestly, I prefer the old cover over all these 'modernized' covers. Helps me find the books when scrolling through the cover view on Calibre.
It's not about new vs. old cover design principles. It's that the cover scan looks like a photo taken by a cell phone with no clean-up (hell, they didn't even crop the top of the photo where the paperback ends) and uploaded to one of the Big 5 to use as their official cover.
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Old 06-06-2020, 04:09 PM   #3978
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It's not about new vs. old cover design principles. It's that the cover scan looks like a photo taken by a cell phone with no clean-up (hell, they didn't even crop the top of the photo where the paperback ends) and uploaded to one of the Big 5 to use as their official cover.
Oh, I got that. I would still prefer the cell phone photo over a new cover. I'm willing to be that they had no other version of the original cover.
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Old 06-06-2020, 04:24 PM   #3979
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Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer - $.99
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002KP6DXQ

Children's books. Looks like the entire Artemis Fowl 8 book series is on sale for .99 each.
Same $0.99 at Kobo US.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?qu...c&fcmedia=Book
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Old 06-06-2020, 04:28 PM   #3980
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It's not about new vs. old cover design principles. It's that the cover scan looks like a photo taken by a cell phone with no clean-up (hell, they didn't even crop the top of the photo where the paperback ends) and uploaded to one of the Big 5 to use as their official cover.
The new cover is a paperback cover with lighting to try to hide the price.
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Old 06-06-2020, 04:44 PM   #3981
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The new cover is a paperback cover with lighting to try to hide the price.
The lighting is because the book cover was old and warped. It's not difficult to remove the price. Here's an example:
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Old 06-06-2020, 04:51 PM   #3982
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Oh, I got that. I would still prefer the cell phone photo over a new cover.
Why? Penguin isn't an indy publisher with no budget.

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I'm willing to be that they had no other version of the original cover.
Maybe. But they could have had Jimmy the intern dig up a copy that wasn't warped, scan it and clean it up in Photoshop.

It's not like there's a ton of books out there with these awful scans as the cover. Steel Beach feels like a slip in quality control rather than a chance to save a few pennies.
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Old 06-06-2020, 05:19 PM   #3983
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Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer - $.99
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002KP6DXQ

Children's books. Looks like the entire Artemis Fowl 8 book series is on sale for .99 each.
I've read these, and they are a fun YA series.
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Old 06-06-2020, 06:13 PM   #3984
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Isn't it weird that Steel Beach's cover is a very bad scan of the paperback? What's up with that? It looks terrible. Even on Penguin's own site this is the official cover.



Someone was asleep at the wheel.
Last post and I'll let it go.

I sent an email to: ecustomerservice@penguinrandomhouse.com to complain about the awful quality. I'm sure my email will be sent straight to the top and this will be sorted, post haste!
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Old 06-06-2020, 08:59 PM   #3985
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Last post and I'll let it go.

I sent an email to: ecustomerservice@penguinrandomhouse.com to complain about the awful quality. I'm sure my email will be sent straight to the top and this will be sorted, post haste!
Please include a warning before this type of post. My nose and coffee are not the best of friends!
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Old 06-06-2020, 11:53 PM   #3986
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Maybe you're drinking coffee all wrong?
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Old 06-07-2020, 01:46 AM   #3987
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I like the concern everyone has towards the book cover (which I think is only on Amazon's website - the ebook file uses the black and white title page as the cover), and no one is wondering if it means the book was digitized using OCR and has terrible typos.
From my cursory glances, it looks fine.
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I like the concern everyone has towards the book cover (which I think is only on Amazon's website - the ebook file uses the black and white title page as the cover), and no one is wondering if it means the book was digitized using OCR and has terrible typos.
From my cursory glances, it looks fine.
Correction: the ebook file on your Kindle uses the black and white title page as the cover.

If you use any reader other than a Kindle, you will see the book cover on the reader. And on a Kobo, it's the screensaver.

The point of going on about the cover is this is a book that is popular enough to remain in print nearly twenty years after publication, written by an established author and put out by one of the Big 5. If that's the attention they paid, what else is going on?
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If that's the attention they paid, what else is going on?
Major xray and page numbering errors, to name two.
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