HARRY POTTER Book Covers Around the World

| Jun 4 | 8 Comments

Harry Potter Italian Cover

Recently, I linked to an interesting article in The Observer about international book covers (More Reasons Not to Judge a Book by Its Cover). What I didn’t bring up before was that the author casually mentions something about the Harry Potter books that I didn’t know. He wonders, “what prompted Italian book designers to give junior wizard Harry Potter a hat shaped like a mouse…” [...]

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More Reasons Not To Judge A Book By Its Cover

| May 25 | 0 Comments

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - US and Swedish covers

In an interesting article in The Observer, Tom Lamont wonders why books are given different covers for each country they are published in, something not done for other types of media like movies and CDs. He interviews a few cover designers who attribute the changes in a book’s cover as an attempt to capture the cultural sensibilities of each individual country. However, at least one [...]

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