YHL Book Cover

[sb]

It's up on Amazon

www.amazon.com/Young-House-Love-Update-Organize/dp/1579654789/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340811087&sr=8-1&keywords=petersik

And it involves bunny ears. BUNNY EARS.

[emjacobs]

Wow it isn't even released yet and it's almost 50% off...

I'm surprised that I don't see: Clara, Burger, or spray painted animals.

[housegeek]

Their cover is...uninspiring.

[SusanBAnthony]

Jun 27, 2012 11:17:21 GMT -5 housegeek said:

Their cover is...uninspiring.

I was going to use the word "blah".

How is it already marked down that cheap?

[housegeek]

Blah works. It actually looks amateur. Please tell me they didn't DIY something as important as the cover.

[sb]

Amazon never sells for the cover price. I preordered Design Sponge at Home and I think it was $10 off cover price.

I like the wood letters. I think taking that concept and doing each word in a different texture would have worked - wood, fabric, something. They kind of did that but it just looks flat.

[ssmjlm]

Who designs the covers? Isn't usually the publisher, plus graphic design, plus the author?

I'm just curious who would ok such a blah cover.

[FoxInFiji]

OMG that is horrible! I like the big wording but the obvious cut and paste contrast between the subjects and the background is bad along with the choice for graphics. Looks like an armature Photoshop project.

[marqueelurker]

I thought they claimed in one of the rare times that they comment, that this was a placeholder and not the actual one.

[guesty]

So are there 243 or 251 ways to......make crap? (There is a discrepancy in the Amazon description and the book title). If I am paying 15 "bones" for the book (which I am NOT), I would want to get my money's worth for each and every "idea."

[tarheels]

Just FYI, Amazon, not the publisher or the author, sets the price a book will sell for on its site. UIL is an author and publisher and refuses to do business with Amazon, no matter how much exposure it costs him, because he feels his works are worth more than Amazon will give them away for. Soooo apparently Amazon doesn't think too highly of YHL

[peach]

That is craptastic! Holy cow! WOW. Um, I like how they did the word "House" but other than that, it looks like a high school computer class project. Seriously that is the photo of the two of them they picked? FFS, why are they even on the cover? Any nice coffee table book about home decor/diy stuff has a photo of a beautiful room on the front, or a photo of a floral arrangement or something....something that is beautiful and pleasing to look at when placed in aroom.

[emjacobs]

Jun 27, 2012 14:23:42 GMT -5 tarheels said:

Just FYI, Amazon, not the publisher or the author, sets the price a book will sell for on its site. UIL is an author and publisher and refuses to do business with Amazon, no matter how much exposure it costs him, because he feels his works are worth more than Amazon will give them away for. Soooo apparently Amazon doesn't think too highly of YHL

I totally get that, but the fact that it is 41% off before it has even "hit the shelves" surprises me.

[aweilba]

Hm... doesn't really do anything for me.

[lemondrop]

Yeah, very flat and poorly done. I think even they could have done better than that.

And the bunny ears. They could have done something much more fun and less 1990.

[hesitantbride]

If that is really the cover, can you imagine what the page layouts will be like? Equally horrific, I think.

I honestly hope their publisher paid a graphic designer to help with how the book layout looks. Otherwise, I think it will be terrible.

[Deleted]

I still can't believe someone gave them a book deal on 251 ways to use spray paint.

[dac]

Just wanted to clarify that while the book cover looks incredibly craptastic now, they did say a couple of weeks ago that that's not the real cover. I guess Amazon or the publisher just puts something out as a placeholder cover until the real one is finalized. Let's hope the real one is a vast improvement.

[ericanandy]

It looks like she has two different colored shoes.

[janelane]

It looks like the front of a powerpoint.
In presentation by a thirteen year old
During May, 1992

Even if it's a placeholder - It's a shoddy one.