Many of you may be familiar with the cover to Lost and Found by Carolyn Parkhurst, as this mass-market edition was given away on many blogs last year (I won a copy from Bethany). However, it turns out the image used on the cover also appears on The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker (which was published in 2003!). I like the way they inserted (or removed) the suitcase on one of the covers!
Another similar image is found on the covers of Good Harbor by Anita Diamant and the Italian translation of The Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffney. (Amiche per la vita literally means “friends for life.”) I wonder if translations are more likely to use copycat covers? This isn’t the first time I’ve come across a translation that uses the same cover as another book.
Another batch of great covers Avis. I love this feature on your blog. Now when I am out at bookstores I am always looking around to see if I spot anything similar.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how you do it - I'm just not that observant.
ReplyDeleteI like how they adjusted the images to make them more unique!
ReplyDeleteWow, that is ridiculous! But lovely to spot. :)
ReplyDeleteYou must come across a ton of books to catch these similarities. I sometimes see books at the bookstore that I know used something from another book, but I can never remember the title of the other book. LOL.
ReplyDeleteAre you keeping an index to all these similar cover posts (links to each of them)? You've found an amazing number!
ReplyDeleteNow we can see how easy it is for the gossip tabloids to edit photos to fit their stories!
I keep looking ...
wow, check out these similar/same covers! Its amazing how often covers are reused.
ReplyDeleteLet me know if you do, Cindy!
ReplyDeleteKathy, it's actually a pretty time-consuming obsession!
Yeah, Jen, me too! The first two in particular seem quite different, while also being quite similar, obviously.
Steph Su, it's my favourite obsession at the moment!
Ti, feel free to mention any of those to me and I'll see if I can remember or find the other book!
Dawn, yup, I "collect" covers and group them by theme. And then sometimes I just see a cover that I recognize but that's on the "wrong" book!
Sorry, Serena, I didn't mean to leave you out of my responses! (You commented as I was working on my responses.) Thanks for commenting!
ReplyDeleteI've read The Song Reader, but it didn't have that cover so I never would have recognized the similarity.
ReplyDeleteGood eye. Not sure if I would have spotted these if they weren't side by side. It kind of looks like the suitcase was inserted to me.
ReplyDeleteLove these posts!!
ReplyDeleteInteresting how the cropping and the placement of the photos don't make them seem as similar as some of the other look-alikes you've shown! Good eye.
ReplyDeleteMelissa, sometimes I wonder how popular the covers I find are. It is possible that some of them are ARC covers that never make it to the wider public. Since I find them on LibraryThing usually, I have no way of knowing. Although I do often check them on Amazon as well, if I don't find them what does that mean?
ReplyDeleteJen (Ladytink), I couldn't tell which came first! What the suitcase inserted or taken away?
Thanks, Luanne! I love posting them!
Jenners, I agree! Although the covers use the same image, the fact that the figures are in the foreground or farther away makes quite a difference.