{"id":488,"date":"2010-01-22T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/bloomsbury-publishing.html"},"modified":"2010-01-22T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T11:38:00","slug":"bloomsbury-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/bloomsbury-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomsbury Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/S1mOfrx6MhI\/AAAAAAAADRY\/Qw8qOQ7xaR0\/s1600-h\/bookstack.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 360px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/S1mOfrx6MhI\/AAAAAAAADRY\/Qw8qOQ7xaR0\/s400\/bookstack.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429527500750991890\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember when I blogged about African Americans on bookcovers <a href=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/should-publishers-get-rid-of-african.html\">here?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t want an African-American on my bookcover because I was worried about my sales figures. I wanted a more generic cover with scenery versus having a person on the cover.<\/p>\n<p>I recently came across <a href=\"http:\/\/whattamisaid.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/boycott-bloomsbury-maybeif-you-care.html\">this blog post <\/a>which tells of Bloomsbury Publishing placing a Caucasian female on the cover of a YA book, but the character in the story is really African American. Bloomsbury has stated that they did this because books that have African Americans on the cover don&#8217;t sell. However, it is deceiving to place the Caucasian on the cover when the main character in the story is Black. Bloomsbury received a lot of flack for doing this and has since changed the cover to more accurately depict the main character. <\/p>\n<p>However, they did the same with yet another YA title, not depicting the character as a person of color on the cover.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s shocking that they did this. It would&#8217;ve made more sense to do a generic cover without people&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This Black\/White book issue looks like it&#8217;s a problem that&#8217;s going to be around for a long time. <\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Do you think Bloomsbury was justified with what they did? <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think they should have portrayed the main character as someone of another race. It&#8217;s misleading to the reader&#8230;it&#8217;s the same as lying, which I think is wrong. You don&#8217;t want to deceive the consumer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I know I was complaining about my cover having an AA person on the cover&#8230;BUT, I would never want my publisher to place a Caucasian person on the cover when my characters are African-American! I&#8217;m pleased with my cover. I&#8217;d just heard that the books within the series that had generic covers had great sales figures. Since I&#8217;ve never seen any of the 3-in-1s with AA covers, I wasn&#8217;t sure how the sales figures would pan out since my cover is going to be &#8220;different&#8221; than the others&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\">~Cecelia Dowdy~<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when I blogged about African Americans on bookcovers here? I didn&#8217;t want an African-American on my bookcover because I was worried about my sales figures. I wanted a more generic cover with scenery versus having a person on the cover. 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