你想為某一位名作家,設計他下一本小説的封面嗎?
多少人會受到書的封面設計,而對該本書產生興趣,進一步購買這本書呢?
如果從許多大出版商與作者對書封面所花的精力和時間來看,
我們就不難了解,一本書的銷售,除了内容是否吸引人外,
書的封面,對於該本書銷售的成績,其實佔據了極爲關鍵的角色。
就像我們常會從一個人的外表,去判斷他爲人如何!
由讀者與粉絲為小説著作,共同決定書封面的設計,已經不是新鮮事了。
出版業爲了吸引更多讀者的目光,不惜花上大量時間和人力在網路上,
和網友互動並讓讀者對他們喜愛的作者有更多的參與。
他們從書的封面,開始動起了腦筋。
出版社讓大家對他們喜愛作者的新書,提出建議甚至參與書封面的設計投票。
參與的網友,也許是設計者,是學生,或是一位普通的家庭主婦,
他們熱烈參與其事,讓該本書還未上市便先造成話題。
而出版商也透過這個策略,先預測一下該書未來可能銷售的成績。
其實這對 出版商與讀者之間的互動,都是一件好事。
我們先看看以下那些書的封面,是由讀者共同參與選出來的。
當然,這些書的銷售成績也相當亮眼呢!
1984 by Adronauts. [via]
The Master and Margarita by Julianna Brion. [via]
The Road, by Max Hancock. [via]
The Secret History by Jacob Stead. [via]
The Secret History by Matt Daniels and Joe Ward. [via]
The Master and Margarita by Claire Astigarraga. [via]
Fahrenheit 451 by Elizabeth Perez. [via]
The Lord of the Rings series by Jack Fish. [via]
The Harry Potter series by Michela Monterosso. [via]
Don Quixote by Lobulo Design. [via]
Wise Blood by Rowan Powell. [via]
Kurt Vonnegut’s partial backlist by Kittaya Treseangrat. [via]
Another selection by Matt McGillvray. [via]
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Andres Rivas-Cruz. [via]
James and the Giant Peach by Jessica Scott. [via]
Lolita by Adrienne Reid. [via]
Ender’s Game by Adam Wolfe. [via]
Sunset Park by Camila Tavares. [via]
Infinite Jest by Jamie Sharpsteen. [via]
Ham on Rye by Dan Fein. [via]
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Valery Herman. [via]
The Big Sleep by Andrew Cadywould. [via]
L’Etranger by Gabrielle Manotoc. [via]
The Wind in the Willows by Rachel Oke. [via]
Pride and Prejudice by Chelsea Benson. [via]
The Kite Runner by Marie Charlotte Ackermann Elnan. [via]
Classic fairy tales by Jessica Ashley Resendiz. [via]
If on a winter’s night a traveler by Samuel Rhodes. [via]
The Catcher in the Rye by Marcela Cebrowski. [via]
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Siôn Rees. [via]
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Benjamin Hughes. [via]
Three covers for To Kill a Mockingbird by Edmund Zaloga. [via]
1984 by Ben Jones. [via]