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03-25-2017, 01:58 PM | #31 | |
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03-25-2017, 02:11 PM | #32 |
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But when--after eight years--you decided to buy it (Old Man's War), how many wrong books with the same colored cover, written by someone with the initials J. S. (with the word "War" in the title) were you fooled into purchasing before you got the right one?
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The idea of making your books look similar to those of larger publishers is not an unique one. Does anyone think that the quite remarkable similarity of the covers of "Delphi Classics" ebooks to those of Penguin Classics is a coincidence?
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With so many, from single title authors to big 5 publishers, using more stock photo's/art these days a lot of covers are very similar. It goes the other way too, with big pubs making covers similar to self-pub books. Harper Collins was in the news for doing so last year.
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Are the Scalzi/Day covers obviously similar? Yes, of course. I just don't care all that much. |
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He used the same characters in a few of the books. Though the pen name wasn't close. |
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I think one might very reasonably suggest that the Delphi cover design has "drawn inspiration" from that of Penguin Classics. |
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Indeed. I'm not suggesting there's any intention to deceive. Note, though, that the proportions of photograph to the rest of the cover are virtually identical on the two covers. The only stylistic difference is that the Delphi cover has the white strip below the book's title, while the Penguin cover has it above. There's not the least doubt in my mind that Delphi came as close to reproducing Penguin's cover layout as they legally dared.
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You seem to be overly hung up on readers "mistaking" one book for another. Do you not believe most readers are at least as discerning as yourself when it comes to this sort of thing? Do you honestly believe that there are any relevant numbers of consumers who are being tricked by this this sort of thing?
I can (maybe) see a false air of "legitimacy" being gained by emulating popular covers. A "This book looks a lot like these other ones I liked--maybe I'll give it a shot" kind of thing. But I just can't see a lot of readers being outright tricked into buying the wrong book. |
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