more book covers (as art and inspiration)

Smashing Magazine has a piece on Excellent Book Covers and Paperbacks.  They write

Book covers are hard to design and nice to look at. An effective book cover manages to catch human’s eye and convey the idea behind the book on one single page. However, it’s getting even harder: to make a book really hard to forget, designers need to design the cover in a unique, creative and striking way. That’s not that different from Web where it’s important to build a sound information architecture upon a rather restricted design layout.

The reward is a collection of 61 covers as an example of the art - and not just tiny little versions of them, but nice big scans and photos of actual books, imperfections and creases and price tags and all.