Chriseindt@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 11 months ago"Don't judge a book by its cover." is a bad idiom, because bookcovers are desinged to represent the content of the book.message-squaremessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1241arrow-down159
arrow-up1182arrow-down1message-square"Don't judge a book by its cover." is a bad idiom, because bookcovers are desinged to represent the content of the book.Chriseindt@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-squarebrainrein@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·11 months agoThat’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.
minus-squarengdev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months agoThe “cover art***” sells it, then. They were trying to be funny I think lol
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.
The “cover art***” sells it, then. They were trying to be funny I think lol