Saturday, January 10, 2015

Kahn's Corner: Judging Books By Their Covers

Kahn's Corner: Judging Books By Their CoversPeople say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but good cover design can tell you a lot about a book's premise, themes, and tone.  Bad cover design can be confusing.  And no one has been consistently worse than Tutis Publishing with its "Great Classics Series."  Basically, Tutis decided to print a bunch of old classics whose copyrights had expired.  They then slapped on covers that range from bland to hilarious



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This one alone is too much fun. Somewhere out there, there is somebody who must write OZ stories set in the world the classics series depicts. 

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