Some of you, my faithful allies, may already know that I’m a big fan of fantasy books and occassionally browse the web looking for more obscure or less known writers and their bibliography, so I can discover more fantasy realms than those created by bestseller authors like Robin Hobb, Raymond E. Feist and of course, Tolkien. So you may understand I was little surprised, if not shocked, irritated, annoyed, utterly speechless, when I noticed some sort of strange book cover theft.
Take a look at the original book covers for the Old Kingdom - Trilogy by Garth Nix. Notice especially the middle two. Then take a look at the dutch translations of an entirely different series, namely the Weavers of Saramyr by Chris Wooding. Here’s a picture of the first book and the second in the trilogy. Notice anything similar? No kidding.
Now, normally, when the dutch translation has the exact same book cover as the original English versin, I don’t mind. I mean, why not? After all, it’s the same book, only in a different language. But this… I don’t know how to call this. They gave an entire series the exact same book cover as a series by a different author. I find this pretty messed up. What are your opinions?
August 24th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Hey Morgan! Goodness me, I have not talked to you in a [em]long[/em] time!
WOW, are those books published by the same company? I’m surprised that a lawsuit hasn’t been filed! Unless the book covers are public domain, but then that’s just cheap for a company; not hiring to create their own covers.