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A quiz, a test, a question....
Really, this is a memory and recognition test. But an easy one. Do try not to get too involved in the process of the test, it ought to be quick and painless, based on simple recall and pattern recognition of things that I think most of the people reading my blog are likely to look at quite frequently.
Without getting up and looking around to check... and if you can without taking your eyes from the screen... (OK, some of you can look at the keyboard if you have to...)
Describe the logo found on the spine of books from four different still extant publishers?
Which logo seems MOST appropriate? Which is most useless or unrecognizable? Which is most annoying?
Extra credit -- do any of these 4 publishers belong to the same conglomerate?
There's more......
Yes.
This might just be a form of market research. Or it might just be the result of waking up at 4:30 in the morning with the niggling suspicion that there must have been a reason I was dreaming about looking at book spines. Over and over again. I used to dream about that when I was shelf-reading for the UMBC library, and again when I was shelf-reading for the Oakland Public Library. I'm not currently shelf-reading for anyone....
Without getting up and looking around to check... and if you can without taking your eyes from the screen... (OK, some of you can look at the keyboard if you have to...)
Describe the logo found on the spine of books from four different still extant publishers?
Which logo seems MOST appropriate? Which is most useless or unrecognizable? Which is most annoying?
Extra credit -- do any of these 4 publishers belong to the same conglomerate?
There's more......
Yes.
This might just be a form of market research. Or it might just be the result of waking up at 4:30 in the morning with the niggling suspicion that there must have been a reason I was dreaming about looking at book spines. Over and over again. I used to dream about that when I was shelf-reading for the UMBC library, and again when I was shelf-reading for the Oakland Public Library. I'm not currently shelf-reading for anyone....
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The only publisher that was ever autobuy for me was Bluejay, and I still can remember their icon.
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I have no idea who owns any of these houses.
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Tor: Mountain
Bantam: rooster
Pocket Books: kangaroo
Baen: rocket
(Looks at shelf and checks...) OK, it's more a rocket plane than a rocket, and the kangaroo is on a big P.
Bantam is probably the most appropriate; Tor would be good if it weren't so similar to the Ace logo, which look more like a tor than Tor does. Pocket Books would be better without the P, which just makes it hard to see what it is.
None of those 4 is 'annoying', per se, but the Baen one doesn't do anything for me. Then again, given their preferences in cover art, complaining about the logo would clearly be misplaced focus.
Do any of these belong to the same conglomerate? Whaddayaknow, they do -- Baen and Pocket Books are both Simon and Schuster companies. Who knew?
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Firebird's phoenix
Tor's mountain
Ballantine's double b
Penguin's penguin
Simon and Schuster's greyhound
NESFA's shield
I could go on, but you only asked for four ....
The ones I remember best are icons for the name or the line (and there's a predominance of animals). I can't think of any I find annoying, unless you count the one that used to be a hart drinking and now is something else less distinctive/allusive, but the publisher/line has slipped my mind.
Isn't everything but NESFA (and other small niche publishers) owned by Bertlesmann these days?