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Cindy: Over at 100 Scope Notes, cover controversies are unveiled on a regular basis. Featured are book covers that pose a striking resemblance to one another. I enjoy those features and just found a set of my own:

Both have a gold skeleton key placed below the the title, both feature their same keys on the spine positioned between the author and title, in matching locations, and both have a tone-on-tone background pattern on the cover. Now it’s early yet, neither of these books publishes until 2010, so the covers might change, but the interesting thing is the publisher in this case is copying itself. Both of these books are being published by Random House. Regardless of what they look like, both are on my towering to-be-read pile. Suite Scarlett was a favorite of both Lynn and me, and while we loved that cover, it doesn’t sell so well to teens. And Green sounds like a fun story with leprechauns, piskies, a cute boy and lots of gold. Can’t wait.

Lynn: Just to add to the fun here is another “key” cover.  Ok – I admit the key is displayed vertically instead of horizontally.  This one is from Houghton and published in February 2009.

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