Raus-Pazazu
Raus-Pazazu t1_j6d1o1f wrote
Reply to comment by Battlepikapowe4 in Will the imprinted advertisement stickers on books ever go away? by Battlepikapowe4
My suggestion then is to simply read more books. That way you can find less trivial things to be infuriated about. This may come across as me being sarcastic. It's not meant as such. Stickers or whatnot on books is really such a inconsequential thing.
Call the publishing company directly. Tell them you'll pay them an additional hefty amount to have a copy of the book in question reprinted without the sticker or logo. They can, and for a high enough fee most certainly will reprint you your own copy, because they're not going to stop printing them with stickers if it makes them more money through contracts with movie and television promoters and helps push overall book sales. If displaying the book that you love is of such significant importance and such stickers or logos are really ruining the aesthetic to such a massive degree as you make it out to be, the additional few hundred dollars should be money well spent.
The other option is to not sweat little things in life. Be Zen about it and say fuck it, it's no big deal.
Raus-Pazazu t1_j6bs6rd wrote
Fret less about the cover and more about the contents. I may admire a particular cover, but I don't buy a book for looking at the single outside page. I buy it for what's inside. Slap whatever you want on the cover that helps the book sell. Or don't. It would be impossible for me to care less about it. The cover is not the story being told. It's a sales device. Sometimes artistic, sometimes not.
Raus-Pazazu t1_j6dhxg1 wrote
Reply to comment by Battlepikapowe4 in Will the imprinted advertisement stickers on books ever go away? by Battlepikapowe4
That was always an option from the start, but the loss is still yours by making the cover more important than the content.