In a recent post about the timing of cover design in the publication process, I mentioned a colleague’s comment that typographic covers have the potential to wow just as much as those that feature a ...

I used to be embarrassed that I often buy books based on their cover, but I’m not anymore: Book covers are a labor of love, filled with artistry and design. That’s the animating force behind the ...

Using The Water Dragon and Reunion as case studies, this paper applies Serafini’s multimodal text analysis framework to compare the Chinese and English covers from three perspectives: perception, ...