I can see where this is going – a bunch of Frankensteins, now Dracula..soon there will be Wolf-Man, The Invisible Man, Creature from the Black Lagoon (ohhh could we get a cover in 3-D?!?), and probably The Mummy. It’s not even close to Halloween, so what’s the occasion?
Maybe the reason is making money from poorly edited and formatted public domain texts?
problem is, some texts are posted as public domain under one country’s laws but are under copyright protection under another country’s laws. Reissuing say an Australian PD text of HG Wells by a self-publisher in America might be a no-no.
Oh, really?I completely didn’t recognize it. I recognized the typography, of course; LOL, I thought the iconography was entirely new. Whoops! I don’t think I ever saw that poster. Odd.
Dude, you can’t take me anywhere. Unsafe at any speed. (Any other overused phrases I can slap in here?) Sowwy!
Xodiac
3 years ago
I see you’re checking out classic books now in the public domain. No complaints – any book with a bad cover is a valid target. But it makes me wonder how many awful covers there are for, say, Don Quixote. Or The Three Musketeers. Or (dare I suggest) The Bible.
I can see where this is going – a bunch of Frankensteins, now Dracula..soon there will be Wolf-Man, The Invisible Man, Creature from the Black Lagoon (ohhh could we get a cover in 3-D?!?), and probably The Mummy. It’s not even close to Halloween, so what’s the occasion?
Maybe the reason is making money from poorly edited and formatted public domain texts?
problem is, some texts are posted as public domain under one country’s laws but are under copyright protection under another country’s laws. Reissuing say an Australian PD text of HG Wells by a self-publisher in America might be a no-no.
I just happened to stumble upon them, and you all are the beneficiaries of my good fortune.
Okay, here’s where I get banned for life from LBC, but Nathan, I don’t hate that cover. I’ve seen boatloads worse, even for that very book.
My main problem with it is that it’s using the poster from the 1992 movie Bram Stoker’s Dracula as the cover for a public domain reissue of the novel.
Oh, really?I completely didn’t recognize it. I recognized the typography, of course; LOL, I thought the iconography was entirely new. Whoops! I don’t think I ever saw that poster. Odd.
Dude, you can’t take me anywhere. Unsafe at any speed. (Any other overused phrases I can slap in here?) Sowwy!
I see you’re checking out classic books now in the public domain. No complaints – any book with a bad cover is a valid target. But it makes me wonder how many awful covers there are for, say, Don Quixote. Or The Three Musketeers. Or (dare I suggest) The Bible.
Oh, great. You just hadda give him more deranged ideas, as if he needed ’em!
I’m sure any such will show up here eventually. We’ve got all the time in the world to get to them…
Ok now I’m imaging this cover for The Bible: Mmm…. sacrilicious!