What makes you pick up a book you’ve never heard of? Is it the title, the author’s name, or the promise of an intriguing story? More often than not, it’s the cover—a single image that has the power to ...

The phrase “don’t judge a book by its cover” sounds nice on paper, but if everyone actually followed it, publishers wouldn’t ...

In a year brimming with beautiful jacket art, these books stood out. Credit... Supported by By Matt Dorfman Matt Dorfman is a designer, illustrator and the art director of the Book Review. If an ...

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A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that made a compelling impression. A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that made a compelling impression. Credit... Supported by By ...

She’d been tasked with designing the book covers for the English translations of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-part autobiographical novel, My Struggle—and she’d landed on a concept to tie the volumes ...

“This cover feels simultaneously classic and entirely new. It’s slightly reminiscent of 1970s science fiction covers (albeit much more restrained), and yet I’ve never seen anything quite like it. That ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Cover design personalization may be the next frontier as books evolve across digital, print and audio. If you want to write a book, you ...

Readers with a keen eye for book cover design are likely to associate uniform jacket schemes primarily with boutique literary publishers—among them Archipelago Books, Fitzcarraldo Editions, McNally ...

And yes, in modern parlance, it’s more about not judging people. Looks can be deceiving and all that jazz. But many a well-meaning librarian or bookseller has encouraged readers not to judge literal ...

We’re all told that we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but most of us do! In fact, judging a book by its cover might not be such a bad thing. A cover can help readers get a sense of what a book ...