Book covers are really terrible these days, and so is their general construction and presentation. I don't understand why the typesetting in a book from the 50's should be superior to one printed...
Book covers are really terrible these days, and so is their general construction and presentation. I don't understand why the typesetting in a book from the 50's should be superior to one printed this year, but what do I know. Penguin is still pretty good, and so are things from the Oxford press, so maybe there's some hope.
This edition of On the Road is probably my favorite recent design. It matches the character of the text very well imo.
There was a golden age of covers, where I believe cover designs came down a bit in price and authors/publishers experimented a bit more. A lot of them really are terrible now. I do really like...
There was a golden age of covers, where I believe cover designs came down a bit in price and authors/publishers experimented a bit more.
I'm heartily sick of book covers as both a reader and an author. They're a distraction, and get in the way of story in order to sell the story. Unfortunately, they're a necessity since we still...
I'm heartily sick of book covers as both a reader and an author. They're a distraction, and get in the way of story in order to sell the story.
Unfortunately, they're a necessity since we still publish books as mass-produced products and it isn't really feasible to buy a license to have a copy of a given work printed to one's own specification. (If, for example, I wanted the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. L. Moore, Michael Moorcock, and Roger Zelazny in folio with leather bindings -- I'd be shit out of luck unless some specialty press like Subterranean Press decides to do a print run.)
Book covers are really terrible these days, and so is their general construction and presentation. I don't understand why the typesetting in a book from the 50's should be superior to one printed this year, but what do I know. Penguin is still pretty good, and so are things from the Oxford press, so maybe there's some hope.
This edition of On the Road is probably my favorite recent design. It matches the character of the text very well imo.
There was a golden age of covers, where I believe cover designs came down a bit in price and authors/publishers experimented a bit more.
A lot of them really are terrible now.
I do really like this version of The Last Unicorn.
I'm heartily sick of book covers as both a reader and an author. They're a distraction, and get in the way of story in order to sell the story.
Unfortunately, they're a necessity since we still publish books as mass-produced products and it isn't really feasible to buy a license to have a copy of a given work printed to one's own specification. (If, for example, I wanted the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. L. Moore, Michael Moorcock, and Roger Zelazny in folio with leather bindings -- I'd be shit out of luck unless some specialty press like Subterranean Press decides to do a print run.)