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Post by C. on Jun 23, 2012 14:17:34 GMT -5
The Dear Reader is only present on the Publicity Schedule. Their gimmick with this is that they are trying to keep release of the book secret, so they are only promoting to a couple million individuals. (Obvious sarcasm noted.)
Another word of note is that the LSATWQ book will be like The Unauthorized Autobiography in book form with hardcovers having a removable dust jacket.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jun 23, 2012 14:36:07 GMT -5
They're giving up the paper-over-board format, then, which is perhaps understandable (though it means this series will be more expensive than the last). I predicted earlier the pages would be glossy like the UA's, so it doesn't surprise me that they're doing so here, presumably to preserve the quality of Seth's illustrations - or were you referring to something other than the page texture? What interests me more is "Used by secret organizations worldwide"; does this inform "Where has all the ink gone?"? If the ink vanishes, is it V.F.D. which suffers as well? Does V.F.D. do business with an evil corporation? If so, how long have they kept up their ties? Long enough for the ink to disappear, or be used up?
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Post by Hermes on Jun 23, 2012 14:41:28 GMT -5
What interests me more is "Used by secret organizations worldwide"; does this inform "Where has all the ink gone?"? If the ink vanishes, is it V.F.D. which suffers as well? Does V.F.D. do business with an evil corporation? If so, how long have they kept up their ties? Long enough for the ink to disappear, or be used up? Well, we believe this is post-schism, so perhaps it's the evil side of VFD which is using the ink. (You may protest that the evil side of VFD isn't really like an organisation. But perhaps it was more like one to start off with.)
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jun 23, 2012 14:49:30 GMT -5
The fact the corporation's ink supply is dying, then (if we take "fading town" to mean such), would be a positive, and surely that can't be the case at the very beginning of the series? Edit: Actually, though: This one seems relevant to the presence of soap in the case-- maybe soap failing to erase ink stains (such as from a jacket?) will be a plot point. Detectives Smith, Jones, and Smithjones were on the villainous side of the schism, weren't they?
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Post by B. on Jun 23, 2012 15:16:59 GMT -5
Yes I believe they were. It's good to see the book getting a dust jacket- I wonder what the underside of it will look like? Mostly it's just a colour- in this case probably a shade of blue- but it could just be an image of the cover as well.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jun 23, 2012 15:29:06 GMT -5
I don't get the impression dusk jackets often have undersides? The movie tie-ins for ASOUE did (a maze) but I don't think that's the norm. Unless you're referring to the inner flap synopses, which will probably include the author/illustrator bios and perhaps an additional plot summary. Adverbs played humorously on the nature of such items; perhaps TFQ will do the same.
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Post by Dante on Jun 23, 2012 15:33:47 GMT -5
A few dustjackets on books do have interesting undersides; I've encountered a couple. I don't know if I'd say that it's increasingly common, but I would hardly be surprised if a Snicket book chose to exploit the possibility, and I certainly hope they do.
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Post by B. on Jun 23, 2012 15:47:50 GMT -5
The idea of a decorated underside is good, but I was actually talking about the book itself. I should've just said book.
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Post by Dante on Jun 23, 2012 15:49:35 GMT -5
The idea of a decorated underside is good, but I was actually talking about the book itself. I should've just said book. Oh, I see what you mean - the cover under the dustjacket. Well, there are two choices: A repeat of the external dustjacket, or something that's a block of colour with the title in a fancy design. I'm hoping for the latter.
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Post by B. on Jun 23, 2012 15:51:30 GMT -5
Though hopefully not in that awful font. Gold italic on dark blue would look really nice.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jun 23, 2012 16:11:31 GMT -5
Usually books with solid colors beneath have a nice cloth-esque feel, like the spines of ASOUE (HC version - Egmont is a little different) whereas picture copies have a more plastic touch about them. I'd be happy with either; on one hand, the latter keeps the illustrations in case I misplace/tear/damage the dusk jacket, and the former is classy as well as a change of pace from the cartoonish cover.
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Post by Kensicle on Jun 24, 2012 5:19:51 GMT -5
The idea of a decorated underside is good, but I was actually talking about the book itself. I should've just said book. Oh, I see what you mean - the cover under the dustjacket. Well, there are two choices: A repeat of the external dustjacket, or something that's a block of colour with the title in a fancy design. I'm hoping for the latter. There's a third choice: a completely different image, like what they did with TUA. Pretty unlikely, though.
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Post by Dante on Jun 24, 2012 7:13:30 GMT -5
Aye, I didn't list that one precisely because it's quite rare (I may mean "remember" rather than "list"). I don't see many books with completely different images under the dustjackets. I can only think of two, actually, and one is the U.A. (The other, incidentally, is a book Snicket wrote for - Noisy Outlaws etc.)
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Post by B. on Jun 24, 2012 7:45:56 GMT -5
I can think of another one- my edition of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has a picture of JK Rowling under the dust jacket.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Jun 24, 2012 15:26:40 GMT -5
I hoped the books would be like the Egmont editions of ASoUE; I really liked those. I don't like when dust jackets get inevitably bent on the upper and lower sides after some time, but dust jackets are definitely classier. And if the book beneath'd have a cloth texture with a golden lettered imprint of the title I'd be really happy. A different cover would be exciting, as it could present a lot of different opportunities for something, that you discover/can decode once you've got all four books, like a coded message or a gradually revealing picture, to name two possibilities. Although such a thing maybe too much to expect, and is less likely to happen. But: it's a Snicket book, after all.
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