Oh, ugh. That's a damned shame. I personally couldn't get into Silver Phoenix at the time I tried to read it, but I thought it had a stunning cover. The repackaged one is so... eh. Generic, and I hate the way the girl has no face.
The repackaging suggests -more- than whitewashing, it seems to suggest to me that what the audience supposedly wants to see is a faceless, generic, non-entity of a cover model. Body parts without an identity. So not only is the cover stripping the girl of her ethnicity, but it's taking away her unique identity as well.
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Date: 2010-08-19 12:36 am (UTC)I personally couldn't get into Silver Phoenix at the time I tried to read it, but I thought it had a stunning cover. The repackaged one is so... eh. Generic, and I hate the way the girl has no face.
The repackaging suggests -more- than whitewashing, it seems to suggest to me that what the audience supposedly wants to see is a faceless, generic, non-entity of a cover model. Body parts without an identity. So not only is the cover stripping the girl of her ethnicity, but it's taking away her unique identity as well.
And THIS is what works in marketing?
Pfaugh. Give me the first cover anyday.