Book Cover Twins: Why So Alike?

Book Cover Twins: Why So Alike? Classical painting is always in trend DOVER THRTEY EDITIONS WORLD'S CLASSICS MARY sheLley FRANKENSTEİN WILKIE COLLINS MAD MONKTON AND OTHER STORIES It seems that publishing houses follow the rule: classical painting works perfect for all classic literature. Bestsellers make it mainstream The New Yark Times Bestueller Fifty Shades of Grey SYLVIA DAY Bared to You EL James After 50 Shades of Grey rocked the book industry,publishers started to use the images of jewelry, shoes and garments on book covers. Publishers love stock photos THEODOR FONTANE Effi Riest LITTLE. BIG d CROWLEY et T Trestate Stock photos are popular among publishers. That is one more reason for book covers to look the same. Publishers can simply change colors... IT'S EVEN PSYCHOPATH WORSE THAN TEST IT LOOKS HOW THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM COLLIDED w TH THE NEW POLITICS OFITREMISM JON RONSON THOMAS E. MANN NDRMAN J. ORNSTEIN Make a copy of an existing cover and make it black and white – it's the way to make an “original" book cover. Or rotate a famous book cover ... One of the firiest novelsin many yeaaCatcher in the Bve DISAPPEARING INGENUE jeff ey leugenies the virgin suicides by the author of middlesex MELISSA PRITCHARD Sometimes publishers just slightly reuse popular cover art. Africa: sunset and acacia tree I NEW YORK TIMS ISSING AUTHOR Jodi Picoult THE POISON WOOD BIBLE BARBARA KINGSOLVER larger than life Somehow savanna landscape became an unchangeable mark of all novels about Africa. Rip-off? GAME OF THRONES MARK LAWRENCE GEORGE RR MARTIN KINGOF THORNS Ecellent-n a parh Geegek.R. Mart twilight S. Zen Words to Live By THE FINE YOPR FIMES ESTSELLER BY A Guide for the Merely Christian STEPHENIE MEYR It seems that publishers can mislead readers with blatant copycats. Sources: http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/19-book-cover-cliches#.dwNwbbGAZV http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/13369.Same_Cover_Different_Book_ http://flavorwire.com/359379/a-collection-of-suspiciously-similar-book-covers/ http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/jun/12/book-cover-cliches-h ave-you-spotted-recurrent-designs freshessays http://www.freshessays.com/