• brainrein@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        That’s one of the purposes of a cover, you could achieve it without any design effort.

        But that’s not the point, not the main purpose of a book cover. Your previous poster is right, the cover is advertising the book.

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          1 year ago

          The “cover art***” sells it, then. They were trying to be funny I think lol

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          1 year ago

          I thought the point of the dust jacket is to make books look shabby when they get crinkled and torn, so you can take it off and find a perfectly serviceable cover underneath.