I never read books with movie art, because I always found books written to simply cash in on the movie franchise were poorly written crap. And then even if it was a movie originaly based on on a book, I never knew if it was the original book with a movie cover or the movie version (with a different ending, scenes, lines, char, etc). Like in the "Little Princess" book with the movie cover are they cousins still or is the movie ending?
The argument is that non-readers will pick up a movie cover version more likely than a art cover, and so thats a good thing because anything to get kids to read is a good thing. Except that since movie-cover books are crap, an even a non-bookworm knows crap when they see it, they're not liking to pick up another book to quickly after reading the movie cover drivel.
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Date: 1/22/07 06:12 pm (UTC)The argument is that non-readers will pick up a movie cover version more likely than a art cover, and so thats a good thing because anything to get kids to read is a good thing. Except that since movie-cover books are crap, an even a non-bookworm knows crap when they see it, they're not liking to pick up another book to quickly after reading the movie cover drivel.