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this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2023
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The point of a book cover is to cover the book.
That’s one of the purposes of a cover, you could achieve it without any design effort.
But that’s not the point, not the main purpose of a book cover. Your previous poster is right, the cover is advertising the book.
The "cover art***" sells it, then. They were trying to be funny I think lol
That's the point of a dust jacket.
I thought the point of the dust jacket is to make books look shabby when they get crinkled and torn, so you can take it off and find a perfectly serviceable cover underneath.