http://www.iblog.co.uk/2007/03/28/cover-for-final-harry-potter-book-uncloaked/ (so you don't have to) Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:34:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.iblog.co.uk/2007/03/28/cover-for-final-harry-potter-book-uncloaked/#comment-3312 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:59:57 +0000 http://www.iblog.co.uk/2007/03/28/cover-for-final-harry-potter-book-uncloaked/#comment-3312 [...] Following my recent blog about the new cover for Harry Potter, I was reminded of the strange concept of producing adult versions of books designed for younger readers. I really can’t understand why there are so many adults who want to buy ‘grown-up’ versions and publishers cater for them by producing more mature looking covers. Given that the adult covers rarely look very exciting (for that would defeat the object it seems) the reason behind buying them must be motivated sinply by embarrassment in reading what obviously looks like a children’s book. Can’t they see that there is absolutely nothing wrong in being able to enjoy children’s books? Surely if a story is good it doesn’t matter who it is designed for. Why care so much about what people will think when they see you at a bus-stop or on the train reading one of nation’s obvious favourite books? To be honest, people who do this should be more embarrassed about reading the adult version as all it shows is a kind of pretentiousness that should not go with the pleasure of reading something simple like Harry Potter. [...] […] Following my recent blog about the new cover for Harry Potter, I was reminded of the strange concept of producing adult versions of books designed for younger readers. I really can’t understand why there are so many adults who want to buy ‘grown-up’ versions and publishers cater for them by producing more mature looking covers. Given that the adult covers rarely look very exciting (for that would defeat the object it seems) the reason behind buying them must be motivated sinply by embarrassment in reading what obviously looks like a children’s book. Can’t they see that there is absolutely nothing wrong in being able to enjoy children’s books? Surely if a story is good it doesn’t matter who it is designed for. Why care so much about what people will think when they see you at a bus-stop or on the train reading one of nation’s obvious favourite books? To be honest, people who do this should be more embarrassed about reading the adult version as all it shows is a kind of pretentiousness that should not go with the pleasure of reading something simple like Harry Potter. […]

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