Do you have any favourite editions?

[jack]

The previous post stands not-withstanding my tendency to be attached to the first cover I see a book in. This applies most to classics which I learned to love in old penguin monocolour covers off my parents, and I expect to see no differently.

But others as well. Watership down is always associated with my parents' particular copy, where the seriousness of the brown rabbit surrounded by flowery grass is underscored by the wornness of the cover. Anything cute doesn't cut it for me.

You can generally go to something abstract -- preferably dark and snazzy and serious -- from a picture, but trying to put a picture of characters I've only ever pictures invariably falls flat for me.

I don't blame publishers for this -- I already love your book, please do attract new readers! I'm just explaining how I feel. For Ender's Game, maybe I do blame.

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[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Yes. I was lucky, I got to know the Sean Bean Sharpe covers first, so I like them, and then we picked up a couple of the series in older editions, which were hard to object to as they looked all classic and had a sketch painting of an old-fashioned guy with a sword on. So now I'm ok with both :)