READy to Talk is a new discussion meme that will come up few and far between, just when I have something bookish on my mind. Something that I want to get y'alls opinion on!
This READy to Talk was brought to on by thinking about my current read. On the very last book the publishers decided they wanted to change the cover.........
YIKES! The dreaded cover change. It always seems to happen when the last book in a series is about to come out or there's already 2-3 books out for the series already. We've all been there when we're eagerly anticipating the next cover reveal in a series we love...... And then it doesn't match. This would be ok SOMETIMES if there was something to justtify their actions. Like if they replaced the covers with ones that look better. But that's always the case. Normally, it's often times NOT the case lol
As someone who likes her series to match, I will most times NOT buy the book if I see the cover has changed. And this will especially make me angry if I don't like it. I'll wait until I can get it from the library or I'll buy it for my Kindle so I can hide the cover. I know it sounds shallow, but I can deal with not looking at it all the time every day, but with it being on my shelf in the open where everyone can see? Yeah I'd be looking like this all the time:
I know the call is up to the publishers, but what are the deciding factors that make them decide they don't want to go in that previous direction anymore? What makes them decide that those other covers weren't good enough? And why do they wait so long to figure it out? And why is it that sometime they remake all the covers or sometime they don't and just leave the last one as different? I'd really like to know so that I can be on the committee to make them stay the same lol
Here are some of the series cover changes that were for the better:
I won't put the ones that I'm not too fond of, but if you ask me, I'll tell you.
What do you all do when there's cover changes you love?
Do you buy the entire series over?
What do you do when there's a cover change you don't like?
Do you just stop buying the series?
What do you do with the first few books you had?