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I the Bokseller.com blog

Lite om skillnaden mellan engelska och amerikanska bokomslag:

"US AND UK BOOK DESIGN: A SPOTTER'S GUIDE

1 US book jacket designers tend to put a lot of rules on the covers, often underlining or highlighting words they want to emphasise.

2 US publishers often rely more heavily on experimental type.

3 US jackets tend to have more artistic images, unlike the more commercial images chosen by their UK counterparts.

4 A common device in the US is to print the words "a novel" on the cover. UK versions invariably take the phrase off.

5 US font size will often be fairly small - even for elements such as the author's name - particularly when compared with UK books."

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