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

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

Agreed on all counts. Some of the US cover designs look ... phoned-in to me, and, considering how irritating I found the interior design (with the stars and stuff) in the first (younger, shorter) book, I'm not sure I could get through any of the later ones in that format.

FYI, if you like the UK covers but don't want to pay extra for shipping from the UK, you can order the Raincoast editions from Chapters Indigo (www.chapters.indigo.ca) or amazon.ca; they are identical to the UK editions inside and out (except they say Raincoast on the spine), but you get a bit of a break on the currency exchange.

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

Oops.

It turns out you're not allowed to do that: http://www.raincoast.com/harrypotter/faq.html.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Bah! That seemed like such a good plan.

I've seen the UK editions at sci-fi cons in the dealer's room, once the initial frenzy of the new releases has died.

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

It did, didn't it?

I'm always having Good Ideas that turn out to have Fatal Flaws. Sigh.