Chriseindt"Don't judge a book by its cover." is a bad idiom, because bookcovers are desinged to represent the content of the book.
daisy lazarusI think the point is that the cover is never guaranteed to accurately represent the book.
Quality of cover =/= quality of book
givesomefucksYeah, the point of a book cover is to sell the book…
netvorThe point of a book cover is to cover the book.
That’s one of the purposes of a cover, you could achieve it without any design effort.
But that’s not the point, not the main purpose of a book cover. Your previous poster is right, the cover is advertising the book.
The “cover art***” sells it, then. They were trying to be funny I think lol
That’s the point of a dust jacket.
I thought the point of the dust jacket is to make books look shabby when they get crinkled and torn, so you can take it off and find a perfectly serviceable cover underneath.