Caustic Cover Critic: Low-Energy Post

Wednesday, 20 January 2010

Another case of two books, one cover, this time using a photo by Mark Pennington.

Unknown said...: I'm always disappointed when i see a book has a stock duplicate (presumably cheap or copyright free) image on the cover.

It makes me think that the book can't be that original or refreshing.; 20 January 2010 at 18:32
Ben said...: I don't get the big white box on the Kipling cover at all - maybe it's more convincing on the actual, physical book, but from the scan it looks really jarring - as if they've just left that bit blank, assuming someone's gonna fill it in later..?; 21 January 2010 at 03:40
JRSM said...: The big white box is part of the series (Modern Library) look -- it works better when the book in question has more than three letters in its title, though.; 21 January 2010 at 13:54