Designer: how misleading do you want this design? Publisher: yes.

Judging books entirely by their different cover editions bc sometimes a cover redesign doesn't go well. These are the worst book cover editions.
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00:00 intro
00:19 why I am qualified for the job
00:49 why covers are different in the first place
01:12 Wordsworth classics, the SHEIN of books
02:13 hunger games
04:19 twilight
04:55 a little life
05:33 the song of achilles
06:03 the twilight-ification of classic books
06:43 six of crows and other indigo covers
07:30 the bell jar
08:00 a certain hunger
08:39 the great g[abs]by
09:40 flexispot ad

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[justcallmeteacup]

That Great Gatsby cover is criminal 😂 It's giving "Arranged marriage to a mafia boss, enemies to lovers"

[cristinamagalhaes]

The six of crows with the six feathers on the cover... Someone thought they were very smart for doing that

[haveagoodday]

No one can ever dethrone Lolita for "book covers that completely miss the point of the book"

[JamesLawner]

WHO thought that Great Gatsby cover was okay?!?! Like there ain’t even a sex scene in that book! 😳😱😖😭🤬

[watsonmelon]

It's funny you should say "crush me with them THIGHS" about that cover for the Iliad because Odysseyus is described as having "fine massive thighs" [kind of sus of Homer] and someone remarks on "what a thigh the old fella has"

[LC-gwtp]

I actually have that edition of Wuthering Heights that has “Bella and Edwards favourite book” printed on it

[TheSnowBallet]

I'm German and had the German Hunger Games editions as a teen because English books weren't accessible to me at the time. Not only are they bland-looking compared to the original US editions, but I hate how they renamed them, especially Catching Fire. The German titles for the books are "Die Tribute von Panem: Tödliche Spiele" (The Tributes of Panem: Deadly Games), "Die Tribute von Panem: Gefährliche Liebe" (The Tributes of Panem: Dangerous Love) and "Die Tribute von Panem: Flammender Zorn" (The Tributes of Panem: Flaming Fury). I'm not so mad about them giving the series an overarching title but "Dangerous Love" instead of "Catching Fire" feels downright insulting. The book series isn't the greatest thing ever made but it was about a lot more than just the romance subplot, by God.

[realms.delight]

I love how you come around to rant about a random problem I had no idea existed and I still stay fully entertained the whole video

[zamiyaFlow]

That Wuthering Heights cover is brilliant, perfect way to wean someone off Twilight and into the novel

[manmoy]

The Woodsworth book covers are stuff my brain would autogenerate in a dream tbh

[KPOPDanceDeepDives]

Please make this a series!

Also another reason the naked man Gatsby cover is weird is why is “Gatsby” so small? My first thought seeing the title was literally “oh I haven’t heard of this book before”. 😭

I get why they’d emphasize the “great”, but they didn’t need to make the second half illegible. ☠️

[anitasilvestri]

They really made the great Gatsby the great thirst trap 💀

[rebeccaphelps]

That Great Gatsby at the end with the Y as the cocktail glass is GORGEOUS! Now I want that one.

[alexdingley]

seen that wuthering heights cover irl and it has a nonremoveable sticker on it saying "Bella and Edward's favourite book!", the marketing team knew what they were doing im crying

[groofay]

Gotta love it when the cover is a different _genre_ from the book.

[opiateutopia]

Damn, I saw those Hunger Games covers back in 2010s. The same book series published YA romance like Twilight, so the designer didn't think twice. It seems only on the third book they went "wait, it's not steamy YA romance?"

[HollyDunnDesign]

I think Wordsworth Classics heard all the shade because they are actually redesigning all of their paperbacks at the moment. I was fortunate enough to be hired to be hired to illustrate their new Brontë covers and they’re going to be foiled and gorgeous (if I do say so myself). 😂

They’re a great company making classic paperbacks accessible (and saved my budget more than once during my university days). I’m very happy to be part of the solution! 🎨

[sienabrown]

As someone who used to work specifically in licensing covers to international publishers, whenever publishers go with a different cover, it’s usually because the elements/photos are too expensive to license! Authors can be SUPER protective of the original covers, so it’s easier for everyone if they’re the same!

[kiripedia]

The way she said “and then we have ecli-ipse” made me laugh so hard

[rina-nvyr]

2:21 “You won’t get what book is this”
Me, Russian, reading the title, in Russian: 🤓