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Ashcliffe

Anyone else hate the "now a HBO/Prime Video/Netflix series!" banner on the book cover?

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I really enjoy book cover art and I look at them all the time. So when a giant obnoxious tramp stamp is on it, it really ruins the experience for me. I even pass up book editions with these stamps on it. I paid full price for a product - I shouldn't have to be served an Ad on my book!

I wish they only advertise the show on the images at the store and remove it once I buy it.

Posted Feb 4, 2022, 8:46 PM UTC

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JBaby_9783Paperwhite SE (11th-gen)•

I don’t care and this isn’t a Kindle specific problem. This happens in publishing all the time. Movie tie-in covers are nothing new and they’ve been happening long before ebooks became mainstream. Amazon has no control over this. This is a publishing issue.

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AshcliffeOP•

Here's the thing, Amazon can have control over this. The can made a new policy where if the format of the book don't follow the guidelines it was automatically deleted. All publishers had to adapt and standardize the format according to the policy. You're telling me that they can't ban the downloaded version without the tramp stamp?

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JBaby_9783Paperwhite SE (11th-gen)•

That’s exactly what I’m saying. Amazon isn’t the publishing these books. Publishers submit the books to Amazon. That means they get to choose their covers. Amazon is a store. There are format standards that must be followed to make an ebook. But covers are a creative choice made to sale the most copies that Amazon does not get to make for books they don’t publish.

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AshcliffeOP•

That's not an argument. Amazon has the final say on what is and what is not allow on their store. The publisher has to comply just as they did with the formatting. The "creative" choices can be subjected to the same scrutiny. Even apple's app store forced app developers to follow their new guideline on app icons design to match the new OS look. So don't give me that crap that Amazon has no control on "creative choice". It's literally no different than an app icon. And this isn't even as extreme as apple's guideline. It's literally just having no tramp stamps - NOT telling them that the art has to look a certain way.

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JBaby_9783Paperwhite SE (11th-gen)•

I’m not arguing for or against any of this. I don’t care either way. But I do think there is a difference. Apps don’t exist out of the virtual world like books do. If you bought these books in the store IRL you would be buying tie-in covers because those are the editions that are current. That’s assuming you aren’t buying secondhand. I don’t see the difference here. Now I will say it would be cool to be able to chose your edition, but I don’t think that’s going to happen anytime soon because there’s no such things as secondhand ebooks.

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j-howell•

The cover exists to help sell the book. The whole thing is an advertisement.

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AshcliffeOP•

Just as the design of a sports car helps sell the car - NOT 3rd party products. How pissed would you be if your car came with a tramp stamp that says "NOW in collaboration with hot wheels!" or some other god awful product you don't care for.

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JBaby_9783Paperwhite SE (11th-gen)•

This analogy only works if it’s a virtual car. Your car IRL isn’t going to magically to have a hot wheels logo on it.

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AshcliffeOP•

No, a property is a property. A virtual copy I bought should be treated the same as a physical copy of the book. And to your point - it's not "magically" appearing. It's publisher without your consent - purposely changing your copy of the book cover when a movie or show collab comes out. This is the equivalent of your car dealer decided it was ok to put an ad on your car while you are asleep. Anyways this is different to my original point.

My original point is: this is the same as the car dealer selling a car with "NOW in collaboration with some garbage product" already painted on it. Of course you can choose to avoid buying it like I did. However my argument is, it should not be even allowed in the first place. Who the hell would want an ad on the face of the product that they bought.

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JBaby_9783Paperwhite SE (11th-gen)•

Now that I do agree with. They shouldn’t change editions people have already downloaded. This should fall under the update rules. Like when something changes and Amazon lets you know that publisher has made changes. It gives you the option to update or not.

I disagree with the second part. The dealer can do a collab with anyone they want. You don’t have to like it or buy it. I hate ads of every variety and I will pay extra to avoid them. But I don’t see the thing with books being the same thing. Tie-in covers sells books. Oprah/Reece Witherspoon Book Club stickers sells books. I’m bringing the stickers up cuz I’m not a fan of them either, but I’d never avoid a book just because it has one of those stickers.

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Scooby359Kindle Paperwhite•

I can cope with them.

I get really really irritated by book titles altered with "Tiktok made me buy it!" 🤬

Edit - Like this fabulous book that they've ruined

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JBaby_9783Paperwhite SE (11th-gen)•

Yes, this is dumb, but BookTok has a lot of influence these days.

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moe1976•

I bought "The Queen's Gambit" and it has the Netflix logo on the cover, however I paid 0.99 EUR so I don't really mind.

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GodOfDucks•

Of course, they're horrid! - This is why you should use Calibre to download a better cover before side-loading your books.

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parental92•

that's why i edit them out with calibre.

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