Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Similar Covers: Feet in Water and Other Lookalikes

I recently came across another duo of lookalike covers: Jumping in Sunset by Dawn Ringling (published in 2003 by Multnomah Books) and Under the Mercy Trees by Heather Newton (published in 2011 by Harper Paperbacks).


Weirdly enough, while I was looking up publishing info for these two books on Amazon, I came across five (!) other familiar covers...

The first was My Soul to Keep by Melanie Wells, which actually has at least five other copycat covers:


T’es pas ma mère (which literally means You’re Not My Mother) by Prune Berge is one of them. Hop over to this “similar covers” post to see the other four.

Next, I came across Straight Up by Lisa Samson, which has two lookalike covers:


Imagined London: A Tour of the World’s Greatest Fictional City by Anna Quindlen is the book that immediately popped into my head when I saw the cover for Straight Up, but a TinEye search revealed another lookalike: Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall.

Finally, another one of Lisa Samson’s novels has a lookalike cover: Songbird looks suspiciously like The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley (though TinEye doesn’t recognize them as being the same).



Come back next week for the other two (which are both part of a large set of copycat covers)!
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9 comments:

  1. bermudaonionMay 18, 2011 at 12:28 PM

    I'm always so disappointed when publishers don't care enough about a book to use an original cover. At least crop the stock photos to make them look different!

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  2. SukoMay 18, 2011 at 7:40 PM

    These are remarkably similar! Wow!

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  3. StaciMay 18, 2011 at 7:53 PM

    Why can't they be more original??? I just don't understand the need to use the same photo and doctor it for different covers. Great finds this week!

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  4. Karen HarringtonMay 18, 2011 at 8:29 PM

    That is jaw-dropping when you look at them closely, particularly that first one.

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  5. Marie CloutierMay 18, 2011 at 9:41 PM

    wow. i am continually amazed by all the look alikes you find!

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  6. Beth(bookaholicmom)May 19, 2011 at 8:55 AM

    Copycat covers drive me nuts! I really don't understand why they use one picture for multiple covers. Of course maybe it is because it draws attention to them? It sure would be a great question to have answered.

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  7. Martha@Hey, I want to read thatMay 19, 2011 at 11:38 AM

    I wonder how much similarity there is in theme of some of these copycat covers. After all, isn't the cover are suppose to tell a little story of the book? That being said, I love the pink purse picture.

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  8. UnknownMay 20, 2011 at 1:36 PM

    It's amazing how similar the three covers are with the green coat and red pocketbook, there's no attempt to make any of the covgers look even a little different. Are original, unique pictures for covers too expensive? I wonder how authors feel if they see their cover on other books...maybe it's just how it goes in publishing?

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  9. KathleenMay 23, 2011 at 3:22 PM

    I am always amazed at how many duplicate covers there are and that I manage to miss!

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