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Why does this book have a cover from Elantris?
« on: August 17, 2009, 09:03:50 PM »
http://www.amazon.com/Lifelode-Jo-Walton/dp/1886778825/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250538964&sr=1-7

Seriously, why? I didn't think they reused covers, and it isn't even published by Tor.
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Re: Why does this book have a cover from Elantris?
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2009, 09:09:43 PM »
My first thought was that it was a self published book, but it looks like it was published by a small group out of New England.

My bet is that the cover wasn't used with permission.
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Re: Why does this book have a cover from Elantris?
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2009, 09:33:46 PM »
No bet. Stephan Martiniere retained rights to his artwork—it's just the whole image that can't be reused as a cover. Zooms on particular parts of the image are fine.

NESFA Press is highly respected and puts out lots of great books from famous writers in the field. I bought their hardcover of Falling Free by Bujold (it was only released in paperback before).
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Re: Why does this book have a cover from Elantris?
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2009, 10:14:44 PM »
Can anybody point me to an image of the spine for Eye of the World? I could swear that I have seen artwork from the spine reused on another book. It seems that occasionally images do get reused.
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Re: Why does this book have a cover from Elantris?
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2009, 05:21:15 PM »
Ookla, does this sort of thing happen often? Because I can't actually remember ever seeing two books with the same cover, even if one is just a detail of the other.
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Re: Why does this book have a cover from Elantris?
« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2009, 05:53:03 PM »
Sure. In fact, there's yet another book that has detail from the Elantris cover. Also, foreign publishers very often reuse artwork for unrelated books.
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Re: Why does this book have a cover from Elantris?
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2009, 10:36:33 PM »
I once ran across a blog that was entirely dedicated to books with the same cover art. There were many pages when I visited it last fall, so it's probably massive by now. If I could find it.
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