It’s an optometrist’s pay day. Book covers have always sold – or oversold – their contents. Like all art, book design is a sign of the times: of consumer whims and cultural advances.

The Spine Bookshop's inaugural Author Com 2025 book festival organized by store owner Lindsay Schultz will be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 8-9 at Smyrna Event Center by a roundabout off Sam Ridley ...

Penguin Books has been slammed for 'TikTokifying' Jane Austen's classic novels after revamping their covers in a bid to appeal to younger readers. The British book publisher is set to release all ...

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The judges were impressed by how Serio successfully used the whole cover, spine included, to form an expansive illustration which wraps around the book. At the same time, each vista can stand ...

Jenny Grigg is the talented book designer behind The Luminaries and Gerald Murnane’s last book. We asked her to explain how covers communicate – and how they can fall short.

Meet the Model Who's On 600+ Romance Book Covers — And Loves Reading Them, Too (Exclusive) Jason Baca got discovered on the set of 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' and spent decades flexing on ...

Arsenic and old books That book is poison: Even more Victorian covers found to contain toxic dyes Old books with toxic dyes may be in universities, public libraries, private collections.

And once the book is published, many of those people would remember that they had a say in the cover choice, and maybe there’s a higher chance of purchase because of that. Everybody wins.

In fact, judging a book by its cover might not be such a bad thing. A cover can help readers get a sense of what a book is going to be about, or pique their interest in the story.

Here are some of the best book covers of 2023 that you did not see—with insight directly from the designers who created them. The version that ended up being scrapped is on left, the final ...