Pointing to the need for pricing flexibility at a time when bookstores face a growing number of economic challenges, some booksellers question whether it’s time for publishers to stop printing suggested retail prices on book covers and dust jackets. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writing for The Guardian last month, Simon Tisdall described the scene at the Tehran International Book Fair, where female skin on book covers is frowned upon. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Designer Brian Gennett has constructed giant numbers out of book covers for each floor in Barker Block, a loft building downtown. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Aptly titled new Tumblr "Lousy Book Covers" collects the delightfully dubious achievements in jacket design. The book Spending Christmas With a Yeti is already at a marketplace disadvantage, what with that title, but then there’s the book cover. Oh boy, where to start. The real-life... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]