Bosman and Kidd

Bosman:

As we are moving more into the digital world, publishers are putting more effort into designing an eye-catching book cover to keep attracting consumers to buy printed books. Bosman’s article touched upon having physical copies of the book be worth buying and keeping so that people won’t buy the e-book. I do think that as we move into e-book, people are more likely to start purchasing books from places like kindle because it is convenient and environmentally friendly. For me personally, I also think e-books are a lot more convenient than owning physical copies. However, when I really enjoyed reading a book, I would purchase a physical copy to keep it for memory. I think having an eye-catching book cover is a plus but not always necessary because I tend to read books that are more famous than having a well-designed book cover. 

Kidd’s TED Talk:

One particular part of the TED talk that I found really interesting was how Kidd said designing a book cover is like translation. They have to translate a piece of a lengthy piece of literature into a single page of a book cover, and I think that is extremely difficult. I came into this translation class thinking all I have to do is translate a piece of text from one language to the other. I didn’t think it would be as difficult as I expected. However, there are so many differences between the two languages that I can’t just translate literally. I think this is the same thing as translating the text into an illustration. There are so many images that people can come up with while reading, but having one defining image that represents the entire book definitely requires a full understanding of the text. 

 

Sophia