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What Makes a Great Book Cover

Plus a Highly Unscientific Top Ten Covers of the Fall

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Sean deLone
Oct 04, 2024
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Book covers are the boardroom seating of the publishing world. Like with who sits where at the C-suite table, book covers offer a template for power struggles or power dynamics to take place. What makes it such a war is that choosing a book cover is a highly consequential yet completely subjective decision. As subjective as books are themselves, there i…

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