{"id":5655,"date":"2006-12-01T16:18:28","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T21:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5655"},"modified":"2024-10-27T19:07:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T23:07:11","slug":"blank-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5655","title":{"rendered":"Blank Book Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve thought a couple times about writing a post focusing on books I bought merely because of the cover. I love the whole cover-design thing – I find it fascinating – especially when I have bought a book just because the cover appealed to me … and sometimes … not often, but sometimes … these random books whose covers literally called to me … have turned out to be some of my favorite novels ever. (Hopeful Monsters<\/a>\"\"<\/i> is a great example – however, the edition of the book out now does NOT have the cover that it had when I bought it … and I have to say, I probably wouldn’t have bought it, impulsively, with its current cover. I shiver to think of not having discovered that book merely because of the cover design!!)<\/p>\n

So, speaking of book covers – I love this whole idea<\/a>:<\/p>\n

According to consumer research, when we decide whether or not to buy a book, cover design is always the most important thing. Despite this, we’d like to introduce you to a new series of books called My Penguin.<\/p>\n

We’re throwing open six of our favourite Classics by publishing them with naked front covers and we’d really love for you to be involved – and to have as good a time coming up with covers as we’ve had in putting the series together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The 6 books are:
\nMarcus Aurelius, Meditations<\/i>
\nFyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment<\/i>
\nThe Brothers Grimm, Magic Tales<\/i>
\nVirginia Woolf, The Waves<\/i>
\nOscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray<\/i>
\nJane Austen, Emma<\/i><\/p>\n

So cool! The books were released – with reader-designed covers – yesterday.<\/p>\n

Scroll down here <\/a>to take a look at the gallery of covers they have received from people (you can click on them to enlarge the images). A 5 year old sent in her design for Picture of Dorian Gray<\/i> – ha! Love it!! But there are so many cool images in the gallery – really fun to look at.<\/p>\n

The one below might be my favorite, though:<\/p>\n

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\nGo check out the rest!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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