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[books] Foreign covers of my books
Got a package from my agent yesterday. The Russian edition of Green, and the German edition of Escapement were lodged therein.
I still think foreign covers are sooooo cool.
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A naive question, perhaps, but why don’t the foreign editions use the same artwork?
Lovely covers. I like what Bastei has done with the Mainspring trilogy.
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Gerry, sometimes it’s an issue of national tastes being different (though I believe that the original Mainspring covers would have worked in Germany), sometimes it’s a licensing issue, sometimes the publishing house simply prefers another look.
Cheers COra – so the simple answer is: sometimes it has to be different, other times it is a matter of publisher judgement