Cover Makeovers
SLJ has an interesting article on the power of a book cover: Operation Facelift: Cover Makeovers Can Be the Fountain of Youth for Many Titles.
What do you think? Do you buy books because of their covers?
What do you think? Do you buy books because of their covers?
posted by Elizabeth O. Dulemba at
8:00 AM
3 Comments:
I don't buy them because of their covers, but I pick them up to read the jacket because of their covers...
I'd say it helps! as a former career graphic desinger, I would have to say updated covers help and a good design will attract or put off a potential buyer.
My kids do this (they cant read yet). They see the books with an attractive cover and ask me to read it.
my 2 cents,
jackie davis
I've heard it somewhere than B&N did a study on it, but I can't prove or verify the validity of the rumor, but supposedly 70% of all book sales can credit the cover design for at least some portion of the sale.
But again, it may be just an urban legend ... lol.
What I do know is many book are re-covered when a re-release is done. Stephen King books do it all the time.
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