why are french book cover so much better than anglo ones?

Because French men still read

>>24521795 (OP)
I don't like the folio covers personally. Editions de minuit and Gallimard are not bad though

>>24521807
I love the format of Editions de Minuit, I love the font. They'll publish me but they don't know it yet.

>>24521795 (OP)
book prices are fixed in france, so books are like 3 euros each, with cheap prices you must compete with all the other suckers and make your book as beautiful and attractive as possible.

>>24521820
don't like the cardboard pages

>>24521795 (OP)
Because the texte, in our country, is still more important than the fashionability of the objet.

80% of my books are Folio and Livre de Poche tho and it gets old, but you can't beat their price and ubiquity on the used market.
English editions are not all bad, I like the few Penguin Modern Classics I have. They do seem to be less floppy and thus prone to back breaking though, like the few NYRBs and Alma Classics I got my hands on.

>>24521839
The cheapest classics are actually 5€ and the standard pocket book is now more like 7€60 and up to 10€. New releases in big format are 20-27€

>>24521839
and i am the honey bee

>>24521850
>The cheapest classics are actually 5€
Really? I had in mind editions like pic rel.

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>>24521880
These are tiny. For Wuthering Heights or Notre-Dame de Paris you're at 8€ in Folio. Livre de Poche is cheaper but the print is terrible. Lonesome Dove at Gallmeister is 13€ (it's still a pocket book).
My Brilliant Friend in folio is 9€.
The Road by McCarthy at Points is 9€.

It's not terrible all things considered, but I almost exclusively buy used nowadays. These books were all 6€ when I grew up.

>>24521945
I forgot to say that you can find some insane stuff used, too. You're looking at Maupassant, I found his complete short stories at Bouquins (30€ new) for 2€ lmao.

>>24521950
Is it pic rel? Or is there another edition?

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>>24521967
What the fuck is this kek

>>24521960
I just checked, I lied, it's only the first volume. I was sure I had Bel-Ami in there though. It's the older edition, this new one looks nice though. Yours is Quarto Gallimard which are extra floppy and nice but the font is not the most comfortable.

>>24521967
it's the queue meme

I love Bouquins, their covers are waterproof and the smell is top notch. This bad boy has to be my favorite of all the books I own.

for me it's babel, that texture feels so nice and slick

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>>24521880
Why can't America have cheap paperbacks anymore? That's what Penguin classics were originally, but now they're expensive. And Signet is as pricey as full paperback.

>>24521877
>>24521880
This shit sells for like $30 in America because of shipping. It's really fucking annoying, and used bookstores rarely have a good selection of French novels. It's either Camus or Le Petit Prince or French textbooks. Occassionally you find a hidden gem from some obscure or forgotten French author. So yeah, Fuck French sellers on AbeBooks and Amazon. They charge an assload in shipping PER BOOK even if you order everything from one seller.

it's a frog thing.
you wouldn't get it.
poser.

>>24522004
because America is the land of Jews milking goycattle for money
freedom, they call it

Like it or not this is peak cover design (other than clothbound with no cover design)