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Old Yesterday, 09:05 AM   #1
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I always thought the isometric cover of series spines was an industry standard...
You know the one I'm talking about. Whenever I see an eBook series on sale in a single volume, the cover looks like this:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/...L._SL1500_.jpg

I had always assumed that was an unspoken standard among the major publishers. But it turns out, no, it's all from a single publisher, and apparently I just happen to purchase like 70% of my books from Open Road Media!
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It is odder than that.
Some are displayed as boxed sets: Spines Right, Spines left and some Spine facing out
The angle varies from 30-60 to ???
Some are just omnibus editions with unique edition covers, the base (#1) image and 'Complete', has thumbnails of the individual editions

Welcome to why some industries created standards.
Oh! and my CD, open reel tape and DVD collections have similar issues. Some spine text run from top to bottom, bottom to top so I am forever twisting my neck to read the spines.
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You know the one I'm talking about. Whenever I see an eBook series on sale in a single volume, the cover looks like this:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/...L._SL1500_.jpg

I had always assumed that was an unspoken standard among the major publishers. But it turns out, no, it's all from a single publisher, and apparently I just happen to purchase like 70% of my books from Open Road Media!
When an omnibus cover is done like that it look really ugly. They need a totally new cover.
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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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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.
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.
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I prefer a flat view with the series title and thumbnails of the book covers. The box set look is just cold pancakes and no honey for my tastes. OTOH, I do not use the book covers as the sleepscreen though others may find my M. C. Escher and similar images screensaver unattractive.

As for a digital copy of a real book? I find it a bit of a Luddite attitude to have e-books not being considered "real" books.
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