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covers - News

Last updated 02.01.08

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RH launches design competition

Random House and Creative Review are launching a competition to design the cover of Crowdsourcing, WIRED editor Jeff Howe's...

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Simple covers 'still the best'

The best book covers keep it simple, delegates at The Bookseller's first design seminar...

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covers - In Depth

Last updated 12.09.08

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Cover to cover

Can you really judge a book by its cover? One school of thought says that if you are scouring the shelves of a bookshop in America, you can. For in the US—particularly for heavy-weight literary titles—publishers often create exquisite...

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If you want to see the true face of a publishing house, sit in a jacket meeting. In these notoriously fraught affairs, editors, marketeers, publicists and sales staff plough through piles of cover mock-ups fresh from the art department. Dozens of...


covers - Blogs

Last updated 12.09.08

Tom Tivnan

Hostage to fortune

UK book jacket designers’ creativity is being held hostage.

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DAMIAN HORNER

Defend the cover

Publishers should not sacrifice one of their last remaining weapons in the battle to win book...

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Laurence Orbach

0.2 seconds to sell

Book jackets are often the only opportunity to grab people. They need to work harder to seduce...

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