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Thursday, January 21, 2010
BLOOMSBURY REDOES COVER WHOOOOOOOOO. Thanks Ed Anon for posting the link.
BLOOMSBURY REDOES COVER WHOOOOOOOOO. Thanks Ed Anon for posting the link.
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WIN tastes good on everything. It's the all-spice of life.
excellent.
Weee aaare the Chaaampiiionnnsss! We are the Chaammmpiioooons!
Okay, I don't have Freddy Mercury's voice. Sue me.
The day just got better. Tkx for spreading the word!
So, while we're on the subject, do you think the original cover was intentional, Le R? I mean, it's 2010. Is it possible that some book cover designer over there thought about it and decided it was a good idea to put a white girl's photo on the cover of a book about a "dark-skinned" girl? And then that designer sent it up the ladder and every subsequent supervisor agreed that, yeah, this is super? Is it racism or moronicism?
@Keith Popely - My guess is that it never entered into anyone's head that the cover didn't match the story, even with the author trying to tell them differently.
Blunders of this sort are common.
GM couldn't figure out why Venzueleans and Columbians laughed at the Chevrolet Nova when GM introduced it in South America in the 1970's. "Nova" literally translated from Spanish is "No go".
Nike couldn't figure out why Muslims went into an uproar over their flame-decorated sneakers. The flame decoration closely resembled the Arabic word for "Allah".
Hershey thought they were smart by hiring a Mexican ad agency to launch a new candy bar. In Mexico, the brand name in Spanish meant "Elegant Nougat". In the rest of the Spanish speaking New World, the brand name had fathers reaching for their horsewhips, machetes, and guns.
Organizations have a tendency to stay the course with a policy or decision no matter how costly.
Thanks, Deep River. You know, I go fishing in a place here in Alaska called "Deep Creek." Is that like your cousin or something?
I'm glad to see something I believed in prevailed, after the big blow I was dealt in Massachusetts. Too bad there had to be a problem with the cover in the first place.
I'm really happy about this, thanks for posting about it Le R :) I do wish Bloomsbury would explain why this happened in the first place. Well one step at a time
It seems to me that Bloomsbury and the author win too, from all the free publicity this has garnered. I was willing to believe the first one (Liar) was a mistake. I wonder how long Bloomsbury will wait before trying it again?
Yay! The forces of good triumph over the forces of evil! YAY!
Maybe this will mark a turning point in this horrid week!
@Theresamilstein I'm with you!
Wow, they admitted a mistake and are fixing it. On a tangent note, that book sounds intriguing. I'll have to look for it after the new cover comes out.
Next up for Bloomsbury: Changing the titles of any books that contain the words Colored or Dark.
pays to throw a collective tantrum it seems. I'm glad enough people saw this as inappropriate and screamed for correction, though I wish it wasn't necessary. Seems to me cover artists ought to be given a synopsis and character description, ne?
I'm going with idiocy rather than intentional racism. What publisher would risk that in today's world?
How many times have you picked up a book and realized the cover had nothing to do with the book or its story or the author? It was simply a way to show off the art department, I guess. I'm an artist, so I shouldn't bash, but still. UGH. I'm glad it was changed. From the blogs I read on it, I thought it wasn't going to happen.
lol wouldn't it have been less expensive to just NOT be dicks in the first place?
I've written a book in which the main characters are white; should I submit directly to Bloomsbury? Or will they overcompensate and depict them as Hutu warriors?
The "Nova" story is an urban legend. Spanish speakers would recognize it as the Latin word for "new." Here in Atlanta, the High Museum of Art has a notable collection of 19th Century furniture, but no one would assume it had no tables.
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