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Title: German Cover!
Post by: Chaos on May 21, 2009, 07:38:07 PM
http://www.fearfulsymmetry.net/?p=204

I love this particular cover. Steve, you were totally right for saying it was awesome. I heartily agree :D
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: Renoard on May 21, 2009, 07:46:58 PM
Curious, how do you go about finding an interpreter that you trust to keep the essential character of the original intact.  German or Dutch might not be so tough, but how about Spanish or French, Japanese?
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: Peter Ahlstrom on May 21, 2009, 08:02:30 PM
You don't. The foreign publishing company takes care of it and you don't get any approvals at all.

Awesome cover, by the way.

Oh, I didn't realize there was a German audiobook coming too. http://www.amazon.de/dp/3869520183
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: Bastille on May 21, 2009, 08:24:58 PM
That is a cool looking cover!! My question is how come all the covers in different languages have differnet covers? Why not just use the same cover and translate it into the language?
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: Chaos on May 21, 2009, 09:00:03 PM
That is a cool looking cover!! My question is how come all the covers in different languages have differnet covers? Why not just use the same cover and translate it into the language?

I assume it would be because every time you sell a book to a foreign publisher, it's now the publishing company's job to market it how they want. The publishing company gets to provide the covers, so when you have different publishing companies, there will be different covers depending on how each publishing company wants to market it to its target audience.
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: Silk on May 21, 2009, 09:28:38 PM
Yeah, that's exactly it. They're not just different languages; they're entirely different markets.
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: Fellfrosch on May 21, 2009, 09:42:57 PM
Everyone asks if I "trust" the translation, and the simple answer is that each publisher has invested a lot of their own money into the book (Germany especially), so it's in their own best interest to make the translation as good as they can possibly make it. So yeah, I trust their translator implicitly--making me successful is his job.
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: Bastille on May 22, 2009, 10:40:38 AM
Thanks guys!!  ;D
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: Shaggy on May 22, 2009, 11:44:43 PM
I really, really like that cover…if I saw that in a book store I would definitely buy it.
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: Bastille on May 22, 2009, 11:54:08 PM
It does look good.  :D I kinda like it better than the other version.
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: Reaves on May 22, 2009, 11:57:58 PM
It does look good.  :D I kinda like it better than the other version.

I absolutely agree. The UK version definitely looks like its going for a more YA market, but still to me it looks very...simplistic. Just a flat red with some claw marks to spice it up...boring imo. The German cover looks like pure awesome.
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: Shaggy on May 23, 2009, 03:34:52 AM
Aaaaaand Germany trumps UK. Again. Great.  >:(
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: Silk on May 23, 2009, 03:48:35 AM
How can you say? There isn't an American cover yet.
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: Shaggy on May 23, 2009, 03:59:15 AM
Whoops. My mistake. I meant the UK.
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: ryos on May 23, 2009, 04:08:49 AM
I must be the only one that actually prefers the UK cover. Maybe it's just that the "written in blood" look has been done to death. *shrug*
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: Silk on May 23, 2009, 04:34:40 AM
I'm sorta with you, Ryos. The "written in blood" thing kinda makes me yawn and roll my eyes a bit. But I do love the cooler covers and the starkness of the German cover.
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: Shaggy on May 23, 2009, 04:42:28 PM
I think the UK cover (aside from being VERY YA) is a bit too plain…too much open space of a color that is kind of…unrealistic, if that makes any sense. (IMO)
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: Miyabi on May 24, 2009, 08:30:44 PM
The book is much cooler to hold in your hand.  It has this shreaded pages thing that is pretty intense.
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: Bastille on May 25, 2009, 03:40:42 PM
ooohh. That sounds cool!! I love books with the shreaded pages.
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: Silk on May 25, 2009, 08:31:48 PM
There's a name for that type of binding. Darned if I can remember what it was, though.
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: Shaggy on May 28, 2009, 11:36:24 PM
Is that like how it was with the Lemony Snicket books?
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: Bastille on May 29, 2009, 01:59:42 AM
Yeah, I can name some other books like that to I just can't remember.
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: Shaggy on May 30, 2009, 04:24:18 PM
OOO I loved that!!! It would be such a cool effect on I Am Not a Serial Killer, too!
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: Bastille on May 30, 2009, 09:20:17 PM
I'm sure it is.  :D Can't wait to read it!!!
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: clarissavandell on November 06, 2009, 02:50:38 PM
The German cover is awesome.  And I also think it's better than the UK one.  I can't wait for the American version.   :D

How many languages has the book been published in, out of curiosity?
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: Fellfrosch on November 06, 2009, 08:19:27 PM
It has been published in English and German. We have also sold Complex Chinese (which covers Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macao) and as of today we just sold Croatian.
Title: Re: German Cover!
Post by: clarissavandell on November 06, 2009, 10:38:02 PM
Croatian?  Wow, I didn't even know that was a language.  Congrats!