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which of these cover designs do you prefer
Cover number 1 8 (29.6%)
Cover number 2 1 (3.7%)
Cover number 3 7 (25.9%)
Cover number 4 11 (40.7%)
Total Votes: 27
Which cover do you prefer?
Topic Started: May 8 2010, 06:54 AM (1,197 Views)
Piano*Dad
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We have been offered some choices by the publisher. If you had to pick one, which would you choose?

Cover number 1:

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Cover number 2:

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Cover number 3:

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Cover number 4:

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We may be able to tweak these a little. My coauthor and I suggested the aerial view of a campus, so that's probably staying! First off, it's our own campus, so we think that's a nice insider touch. More importantly, it links symbolically to a theme of the book, which is that understanding college cost requires an aerial view that places the higher education industry firmly in the economic history of the past century.



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apple
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4, (altho I think the white lettering is hard to read)...then 3.
it behooves me to behold
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Mark
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I don't like any of them.
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You probably won't like the book either. :lol2:
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1 or 4.
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In this order: 3,1,4,2. Change the white lettering in 4. Maybe red.
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Luke's Dad
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I went with #3.

#4 is visually appealing, but doesn't read well.
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Piano*Dad
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Would you change your mind if the 'read well' problem could be solved? How might we do that?
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I respectfully agree with Mark.
And with apologies to your co-author I think a picture of an inter city
campus would be more impressive. The school you show looks expensive, and probably is. A City school does not look expensive, but probably is also.I think that's the point of your book, no?
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I can only see 1 and 2 and I prefer 1.
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sue
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I chose 3; it's clear and not trying to be all artsy, which it looks like the others are, and not succeeding.(imho)

but I agree with Vince; the overhead shot of a sprawling beautiful green campus gives me the impression the book will be about how plush and catering to the rich college has become, hence costing so much. Maybe that is what the book is about, I don't know. Just my first impression.


edit: ok, while I'm being all picky I thought I'd throw this out there, fwiw......I can't quite say why, but the title of your book just doesn't sound quite right to me, never has. Every time I read it I get the same feeling, like the grammar is a bit off. ? Being a book about higher education I'd expect a more 'educated' sounding title.

Edited by sue, May 8 2010, 08:15 AM.
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I like 2, and I like the aerial view.

But I went to a college that looked like that, so I might be biased.
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1hp
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I like 4 (with a lettering colour fix). I'm no advertising exec, but I think the most visually appealing cover is likely to sell more copies. The other covers, to me anyway, look more boring and ordinary.

Edited by 1hp, May 8 2010, 08:24 AM.
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Dewey
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Definitely not 2.

3 is nice, direct, graphically uncluttered.

4 is almost as nice, while more graphically sophisticated, but the white lettering is hard to read, and possibly a bit too small.

The split image, and the way the letters bleed into the photo, is distracting and counterproductive - and the font looks "cheap" - in 1.

Another suggestion is that you may want to include a "subtitle" to the Title - something like

Why Does College Cost So Much?
An Examination from Inside the Ivory Tower

or something like that; you get the idea - but don't - DON'T separate the title and subtitle with a colon, or make the title a supposedly pithy two-word phrase that is unintelligible without the subtitle explaining what it really means.
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May 8 2010, 08:29 AM
or something like that; you get the idea - but don't - DON'T separate the title and subtitle with a colon, or make the title a supposedly pithy two-word phrase that is unintelligible without the subtitle explaining what it really means.
+1.


Other than that I'm kind of in VPG and Mark's camp; none of the covers really appeal to me all that greatly. But I don't think it's a deal breaker for the book, you know what they say about book covers...
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apple
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perhaps.. why is college SO expensive?
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John D'Oh
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3. Then 4 and 1.

I don't like 2 at all - having the text that way up doesn't work.
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sue
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May 8 2010, 08:36 AM
Dewey
May 8 2010, 08:29 AM
or something like that; you get the idea - but don't - DON'T separate the title and subtitle with a colon, or make the title a supposedly pithy two-word phrase that is unintelligible without the subtitle explaining what it really means.
+1.


+ 2 ! (And while on that topic let's stop the "Blah Blah: a novel" that is gracing so many fiction covers these days :tongue: ).
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Never fear: I will not use a colon in the title.
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Piano*Dad
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Vince,

A picture of an inner-city campus would like like, well, a city. The occasional 'green oasis' campus in urban areas would not look much different than the picture of our own campus.
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May 8 2010, 09:59 AM
Vince,

A picture of an inner-city campus would like like, well, a city. The occasional 'green oasis' campus in urban areas would not look much different than the picture of our own campus.
:P This is the closest I can find to sticking my toungue out at you!!!!!
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Here, let me help you .... :tongue:
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Riley
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I like #4. I agree, though, that the white could be changed to another colour.
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Of the 4,#1 is the only one visually interesting for me -- simple, elegant and well proportioned. The font could be tweaked, perhaps.

#2 is disorienting
#3 is boring, and the "Cost So Much" being emphasized does not help.
#4 is trying too hard

Also, the photo itself does not read like a college campus at first glance. I suppose the photo needs be somewhat nondescript so that no one from say ND or UVA (or some recognizable school) accuses you of bias against them... Maybe an aerial photo that shows a collegiate football stadium in the foreground might be better -- I don't know if you tackle the financial issues of sporting programs, but if it gets people to buy the book...
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Klotz
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All of them are ugly. Your publisher should hire someone with better design skills.
I would not guess it's a campus aerial view.I would suggest a view from the inner court (like in those Oxford campuses) to cover the whole page, with the name of the book in some visible colour at the bottom of the image. The authors name at the top.
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