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Movie tie-ins: Confessions of a Shopaholic


In preparation for the movie version, Dial Press is coming out with a new trade paperback tie-in of Confessions of a Shopaholic. Compare it with the original mass market paperback cover:


Personally, I like the old cover better... but then again, I've always thought that movie tie-ins in general are a little tacky. What do you think?

Comments

Alicia said…
I always prefer the original covers to the movie tie-in. I have even been known to not buy a book specifically because of the cover being a movie tie-in. :)
October 28, 2008 at 1:45 PM
Kristen M. said…
I'm the same too. I will avoid buying a book at a specific time if they only have the movie tie-in cover and I will find it later in a better cover. Mostly, I like to be able to be free to imagine the characters on my own and when they stick an actor there on the cover, it ruins that freedom.
October 28, 2008 at 1:47 PM
Anonymous said…
I am not at all keen on the movie tie-in covers, because, as you've said, they're usually tacky.

Also, as a bookstore employee all it means is repeated conversations that yes this is the same book as that one but with a different cover, and that no I don't think the publishing company is trying to dupe you into thinking it's a different book, etc.
October 28, 2008 at 2:47 PM
Luanne said…
I like the original as well. Movie tie in releases always seem to detract from the book for me. If I haven't read the book, but don't especially like the actor, I might just give it a pass.
October 28, 2008 at 3:37 PM
Anna said…
I completely agree with you about movie tie-ins being tacky. But I'm sure there are some people who'll buy the book just because there's a certain actor on the cover or they like the movie, so I guess they serve their purpose.

--Anna
Diary of an Eccentric
October 28, 2008 at 9:40 PM
Anonymous said…
I always prefer the original covers because the movie tie-in ones are always too tacky. I also think that movie and books should be separate. The movie poster should never conquer the book cover. Do you ever see the other way around?
October 28, 2008 at 11:25 PM
Alea said…
Usually I prefer the original too but in this case I really like the movie tie-in cover. Some great colors and a hilarious photograph! It also helps that I never was too jazzed about the original cover!
October 29, 2008 at 9:38 AM
Bookfool said…
I almost always prefer the old cover over a movie tie-in. The only exception is when the actor is just so freaking handsome that I want to stare at the cover (Anna was talking about idiots like me . . . swayed by a handsome face; embarrassing, but true). I love the Robert Redford cover of The Natural, for example.

This one -- doesn't look like the Becky of my imagination.
October 29, 2008 at 9:45 PM
Anna said…
Bookfool, you're certainly not an idiot!!

I'd probably by a book if Stuart Townsend was on the cover. LOL

--Anna
Diary of an Eccentric
October 29, 2008 at 9:49 PM
Anonymous said…
I like the old one better, too. I always feel like a sell-out if I buy a book with a movie cover. I don't know why.
November 3, 2008 at 9:07 AM
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