Strange “hairy” covers of books in medieval Europe were made from seal skin obtained from Viking descendants, a new study has found.. It is rare to find medieval manuscripts in their original ...

For a long time, the exact material that was used to make these manuscript covers, called chemises, has remained unclear. Now, scientists subjected over a dozen of these book covers to diverse ...

Book covers do more than attract attention—they signal genre, audience, and the author's intent, shaping first impressions ...

The book had stagnated for almost three decades before we republished it with a total redesign of its original 1958 cover. Shortly after the book was rereleased, we had publishing deals in Brazil ...

She’d been tasked with designing the book covers for the English translations of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-part autobiographical novel, My Struggle—and she’d landed on a concept to tie the ...

An AI-assisted book cover led to the end of the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off cover contest, as science fiction and fantasy authors are finding new strategies for dealing with AI art and writing.

Those snippets of praise on book covers have been around for over 150 years (at least). But how do they get there — and why? The answers are more complicated, and compelling, than you might think.