Saturday, July 04, 2009

Book Covers And Shop Windows

Seth Godin’s blog is nearly always worth a read. Today he talks about using a book’s cover to attract attention and encourage the customer to pick it up and look at it. He lists a number of ways in which this can be done, all of which could apply to a shop window:

Iconic (because iconic items tend to signal ‘important’)
Noticeable across the room (you see that lots of other people own it, thus making it likely that you’ll want to know why)
Sophisticated (because this helps reinforce that the ideas inside are worthy of your time)
Original (why bother reading a book you already know)
Clever
Funny
Generic (reminding you of a genre or another book you liked, not generic as in boring)

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