things you hate in a cover

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>>9914590
Glad to see someone else absolutely despises this.

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>>9914590
Better than the picture of someone-who-may-very-well-be-the-author-but-actually-isn't-lmao

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>>9914590
It can be good, depending on the photo

>>9914590
Marketing bullshit.

>New York Times bestseller
>BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF "I'M A PLEB" and "AYY LMAO"
>"Eminent... Divine... The best book ever published since the Holy Bible" --S. Hill, Exaggeration Magazine

So American.

>>9914861
George Orwell isn't in that photo though.

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>>9914783

I'd literally rather pay for a different copy online than buy a copy like pic related in store

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>>9915000
Yes, yes. Fuck that also.

>>9915129
I don't buy books very often but honestly I'm so autistic about this that I have often refrained from checking out library books just because they have the face on the cover.

>>9915000

>when the quotes are literally the cover

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>>9915129

Penguin Modern Classics is the worst offender for this shit, literally all their Keroacs are this

Do people actually buy books because they think the author is good looking?

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>>9914590
But what if it is kooky like this

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>cover is a stylised quote from the book

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>>9915154

the only times its acceptable are when the author is the actual subject of the book like in pic related

AUTHOR NAME
Book Title

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>>9915151
yeah they do. Kerouac is just as much as a symbol for the American counterculture as he is a writer, and he is the go-to guy for the beat generation. Seriously, I wouldn't be surprised if On The Road is one if not the best seller for penguin.

>>9915185

Do people really look up to Keroac himself? he wasn't really even a beatnik, he just wrote books, converted to buddhism then died

>>9915200
I think he appeals more to (mostly) young adults as an aesthetic or a lifestyle choice than as a person.

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>cover is nothing at all

>>9915200

it was his plainness which appealed to people, he was a relatively ordinary guy who wrote about things ordinary people thought about.

Overly colourful with pictures. I like them plain, and often feel worried that people are thinking I'm reading YA dragon-fighting shit if the cover is too loud or MS-Paint-tier design

>>9915168
I guess it's okay for celebrity fiction to have shit covers, just as a warning to intelligent people

>cover is from a film based off of the book

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>cover has a no/a strenuous connection to what happens in the book

>Cover is literally just a photo of the author's oiled up dick

>>9915234

He went to the movies a lot in the book...

>>9915236

yes but it seems odd to make it the main focus of the cover, it would be different if it was also the main focus of the book

>>9915214
dependent on the book the minimalist approach can be quite appealing.

>>9915229
this is cancer.

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>>9914861
maybe for Hemingway's novel.

>judging books by their cover