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03-28-2017, 11:54 AM | #46 | |
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Intent to deceive is a pretty hard thing to prove.
Especially when tradpub covers follow genre-specific memes. https://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/1...-cover-cliches Try these: https://www.theguardian.com/books/bo...urrent-designs Lazy cover art design is a thing. So is spaceship covers in SF. Go looking and you'll find a dozen that look like Scalzi's, even without any attempt at deception or parody. Last edited by fjtorres; 03-28-2017 at 11:58 AM. |
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03-28-2017, 12:11 PM | #49 | |
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Has Scalzi publically chimed in on any of this yet? If I was a concerned Scalzi fan, that's who I'd probably take my cues from on this. Last edited by DiapDealer; 03-28-2017 at 12:15 PM. |
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Seems like reasonable advice.
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03-29-2017, 04:37 AM | #52 |
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I'm pretty sure that the one thing people who are buying books have in common is that they can read - not just look at the pretty picture on the front of a book. This is not an intelligence test anyone buying the Scalzi book should fail.
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What if the purchase is indirect? I.e. "When you go to *bookstore* please pick up the new Scalzi for me - "Collapsing Empire", here's a picture ". How large does the potential group have to be until a significant number of wrong books are purchased? Unless it's written down, or the person has eidetic memory, they're only going to remember how the name sounds and the cover was blue with planets and ships and something about a ruined empire. Yes, most sensible people will check twice. Someone in a hurry might not because they don't even imagine the possibility that there might be two similar books. |
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Hell no. You might want to go back and research the history between Beale and Tingle. Theirs is not a collegial relationship.
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I'd rather not (research Beale and/or Tingle's history), actually. It's much easier to say "My mistake," instead.
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Judging by your description they are far more likely to return with something by Asimov anyway, so that's a bonus. The number of people getting this wrong must be close to the number of people trying to text on a Granny Smith's. |
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If you go to the bookstore to buy a pBook, you are less likely to buy the wrong book than you would be buying the eBook.
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Every time someone posts in this thread, the man's name and the name of his publishing (out)house get pushed to the top of the forum and give him a nice little publicity boost, and I sigh.
Now I'm doing it. |
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