Still, as Kidd tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer, all books — electronic, hardcover or paperback — need covers. "They need some kind of visual representation, whether you're going to be seeing them ...

But the whole episode underscores a larger fact that I’ve come to believe after writing about book covers for years—killed covers are often where you can find the really great stuff.

A good first impression is, of course, the goal: to elicit curiosity and excitement before you’ve even picked the book off a shelf. But a great cover can fortify itself in our consciousness ...

“When you’re reading a book, you are imagining the whole thing happening. I want space for people to be able to do that.” These covers speak to the rom-com audience’s yearning for a ...

or they have these family photos that they want you to try using on the cover, or sometimes it'll just be a phrase that they pulled out of the book. It can be really anything,” she says.

We may earn a commission from your purchases. We were all taught the old adage “don’t judge a book by its cover,” but when you’re browsing books at your favorite bookstore, it’s ...

An idea came to mind — I would put the excess books without a space on the shelf on full display in front of some of the rows, with the full cover facing me, so I could look at my collection of novels ...

The phrase “never judge a book by its cover” is starting to look old hat ... post to social media and now everyone knows you are reading so and so’s latest masterpiece.