What the best dressed book jackets will be wearing this season

[muse_books]

I think most book lovers will have noted that book covers have certain fashions, included the decapitated girl or those that mimic the last big best-seller.

This week 'The Guardian' newspaper covering the London Book Fair takes a light-hearted look at the latest trends in book jackets.

Cover Girls: This year's book jacket fashions

Comments

[five2midnight]

I thought the comment for the pure text jacket was hilarious.

What it says: bow down - author is such a god that usual visual accessories would be vulgar

[muse_books]

The author obviously had great fun writing it. I especially liked the one about the 'handwritten name and title, or jumbled typeface'

"linguistic antics from madcap maverick. Of course it's almost unreadable - didn't you getcover's subtext?"

[five2midnight]

lol yes. There was like the perfect amount of snark in that article.

[ms_geekette]

The headless female cover trend needs to DIAF. I generally don't imagine myself as the hero/heroine/main character in a book (i.e. I am the one doing all of these things), and I'm not sure why publishers insist having covers with partial heads and think everyone would find it inviting?

Since most of the books I read come from the library, I find that a striking book spine gets my attention more, these days. (Yes, I'll look at the cover and read the synopsis, too, but if the spine is unremarkable I may not even notice it to look at the cover.) Other than big displays in book stores and libraries, I think most people are introduced to books via their spines if they just happen to be browsing somewhere IRL. I guess the cover is more important for online sales and general advertising?