Covers for Your Covers

A book cover is make or break. It’s the first judgment of whether a book is worth spending hours reading. It’s essential for instilling trust, but also for ensuring you don’t miss out on potential readers. Book covers are tailored to the target audience and market. They change appearance not only by country and language, but also based on the readers' preferences and perception of genre. All readers connect with and get hooked on different things. Readers are drawn to, remember, and appreciate different elements of a story. Some love the characters and their relationships. Others love the social criticism. While someone else loves the world-building. But, they have one thing in common: they all love the same story. They just have different perspectives. Same book, four unique covers.

Covers for Your Covers "This year, Goodreads turns 20. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Goodreads is releasing special editions of selected book covers. One of the books, voted for by Goodreads users, is “A Closed and Common Orbit” by Becky Chambers. The book is getting four new covers, inspired by the readers of the book cover world. The special editions are available as physical dust jackets, selectable covers on your Kindle, and animated covers across audiobook apps." Book covers for "A Closed and Common Orbit": Dystopian (nodes and a cave painting.) Do you… love alternative futures, the big questions and ethics. Spaaace (a big and a small planet.) Do you… love sci-fi, distant worlds, and tech. Philosophic (pixelated half-circle.) Do you… love humankind, inner thoughts, and introspectiveness. Fandom (a woman, a girl, and dogs.) Do you… love fanart, fanfiction, and headcanons.