You may have noticed a striking similarity in recent book cover designs. That is, if you’ve even noticed them at all. There are a number of a reasons for that, which The Atlantic looked into in this post Book Cover Clones: Why Do So Many Recent Novels Look Alike? It may be because of the proliferation of e-readers, they suggest. This pattern, book illustrator Duncan Long says in the piece, “results directly from the advent of the e-reader. Thanks to the small size and reduced resolution of e-reader screens, book jackets have become less complex in order to preserve the integrity of the cover art onscreen.
It’s an issue that they’ve examined previously, asking Has Kindle Killed the Book Cover? I wasn’t really aware of this shift myself, because who even knew they made book covers anymore? Much like mp3s did for album art, it seems entirely likely that the book cover is something that will continue to decline in prominence as more and more of us turn to e-readers for our lit fixes. You can’t judge a book by its cover if you don’t even know it’s there. But that’s not the only way that e-readers are changing the game. Herewith, a few other suggestions for how our reading habits, and quite possibly the entirety of civilization, will be forever ruined by the seemingly innocent device. Read the rest at Bullett.
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