What's in a cover

[pbray]

I continue to be amused by the differences between the cover art for the US and UK editions of the Harry Potter books. The newly revealed covers for HP7 continue the trend.

Illustrations behind the cut for kindness.



US cover (one size fits all):

UK children's cover:

UK adult cover:

Note novel text exactly the same, only difference between children's version and adult version is the packaging.

Comments

[naomikritzer]

Also, I'm surprised the American publisher doesn't do separate editions just to double-dip all the people who would buy both.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

I agree the adult UK covers are gorgeous--I'd love to have them myself. Given that there's even a "special edition" of HP7 coming out, it seems that the publisher recognizes that there's a collectors market out there. So perhaps it won't be long before they start double-dipping.