LO: Like the Cover Art?

Tristan · Postby **Tristan** » Sat May 24, 2003 1:27 am

What does everyone think of the cover art that amazon has for Lyra's Oxford? (http://images.amazon.com/images/P/03758 ... ZZZZZZ.jpg) I'm guessing that the image on the front is an example of the wood-block illustrations by John Lawrence... it looks pretty good, I think. I'm guessing this is the American cover, since it was amazon.com, not co.uk, but who knows if they'll be different

AySz88 · Postby **AySz88** » Sat May 24, 2003 2:35 am

It's a stunning illustration when taken by itself...won't turn heads in a crowd, but I guess it might not be supposed to be that way.

Postby **jessia** » Sat May 24, 2003 5:23 am

it's great, though it's not the same as the eric rohman (?) ones. but this is an illustration of oxford, i assume, so it's a completely different atmosphere for the pics.

to see if the uk cover's the same as the american cover, just go to amazon.co.uk.

AySz88 · Postby **AySz88** » Sat May 24, 2003 5:27 pm

There was no listing for Lyra's Oxford on the .co.uk site at all.

jopari · Postby **jopari** » Sat May 24, 2003 5:34 pm

it got taken off, for some odd reason... it expains it somewhat on the BTTS homepage.

AySz88 · Postby **AySz88** » Sat May 24, 2003 5:46 pm

I mean the .co.uk version, not the .com version.

Postby **jessia** » Sun May 25, 2003 12:49 am

its .ca page is still up.

Will · Postby **Will** » Sun May 25, 2003 5:46 pm

..so it is. Strange.

It's a nice picture, looks quite grown-up don't you think? I wonder how they'll be marketing this book.

Postby **jessia** » Sun May 25, 2003 6:56 pm

how did they market the trilogy?

Will · Postby **Will** » Sun May 25, 2003 7:44 pm

Not that vigorously... They had stands of TAS out when it won the Whitbread but I didn't pay much attention to NL and TSK when they came out, so I really couldn't comment.

eloquent · Postby **eloquent** » Thu May 29, 2003 1:10 pm

Thought I might as well post this. Amazon's WAP site also denies the existence of LO (or at least doesn't list it anywhere).

Will · Postby **Will** » Thu May 29, 2003 8:17 pm

They can deny it all they want, we know it's out there and nothing is going to stop us getting to it..

Kyrillion · Postby **Kyrillion** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 9:31 pm

Or do we? Maybe it's all a marketing ploy. They'll get us down to the bookshops, and then try and sell us some other book.

The marketing of HDM: my interest was first caught by an A3 poster in my local library, when NL first came out. I think publishers only produce posters for books they think will sell well. I worked in an independant bookshop for the Brighton festival last spring, and they had some cardboard-cuttout TAS stuff, but not much. It was marketed more like an adults book would be than a children's book.

Will · Postby **Will** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 9:39 pm

I saw a signed poster (by PP of course) for TAS in an Ottakar's and I was this close to...helping myself to it. I probably should have asked if I could buy it off them.

bharned1 · Postby **bharned1** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 5:57 am

I don't know if I have it different in America, but I like all the art for Lyra's Oxford, including the cover.

jmbekrub · Postby **jmbekrub** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:05 am

To tell you the truth, it reminds me less of HDM, and more like his other mystery books about sally lockhearr.

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