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owlectomy ([personal profile] owlectomy) wrote2011-07-26 08:28 pm

Covers, by the numbers

YA cover statistics, 2010 edition

I mean, even dead white girls come close to outnumbering obviously black or Asian girls. That's ridiculous. And I like pretty dresses as much as the next person, but seriously? We can't put an Indian or Latina girl in a dress? Really?


I feel less overwhelmed by ridiculous trendy covers now than I was last year -- I think maybe it got to the point that publishers realized that they were all putting out books with exactly the same covers. Anyway, the numbers are interesting.