Whenever I see marginal improvements (e.g. A Vow of Fate up there) it always makes me think of the punchline from a very old Dilbert strip in which one of the pointy-haired boss’s many inane decisions actually proves beneficial to his employees: “This is actually an improvement.” There’s nothing quite like a little faint praise to motivate some redesign!
(Not entirely coincidentally, a joke I’d like to see on here sometime would be a “new cover for old” that shows the new cover to be… nothing because the book is no longer being published, as with e.g. the Norwegian book Medics fags and fiv which somebody at Amazon evidently eventually noticed was not even remotely related to being anything it claimed to be.)
Whenever I see marginal improvements (e.g. A Vow of Fate up there) it always makes me think of the punchline from a very old Dilbert strip in which one of the pointy-haired boss’s many inane decisions actually proves beneficial to his employees: “This is actually an improvement.” There’s nothing quite like a little faint praise to motivate some redesign!
(Not entirely coincidentally, a joke I’d like to see on here sometime would be a “new cover for old” that shows the new cover to be… nothing because the book is no longer being published, as with e.g. the Norwegian book Medics fags and fiv which somebody at Amazon evidently eventually noticed was not even remotely related to being anything it claimed to be.)
There are TONS of books that have just been pulled down; they outnumber cover replacements two to one.