Because a tactile, finger-friendly cover can often mean the difference between a strong seller and one that bombs at the tills, or so the thinking goes.
Last year it aimed its swanky shtick at popular TV-show themes with the album "Dick at Nite," and it's currently pushing a lounge-friendly cover of the "Indiana Jones" theme.
First of all, it is Cannie's good fortune to find herself promoted by extremely cute, bright, sexy, reader-friendly cover art, featuring pedicured toes and a piece of cake -- not a bad way of conjuring the desired state of mind.
An advertiser-friendly cover of The Knife's "Heartbeats" propelled Junip frontman González into the limelight; he's taken his own electronic approach for his return to the band he formed before emerging solo in 2005, with brooding synths and a new percussive urgency lending the band's sometimes meandering ruminations on love and loss a more vital edge.
Under the standard soft, pin-friendly cover (stretchable, naturally) is a set of mechanisms that can change all kinds of measurements, quickly and (ahem) seamlessly.
A series of very unfortunate events in very quick succession – the expenses scandal, the phone-hacking affair and its Murdoch-friendly cover-up – should read like cosmic hints that maybe, you know, we need to get one.
Magazines that do not sell well on the newsstand -- those with the least consumer-friendly covers -- receive limited distribution or are charged extra.
"I don't know how 'brave' I am when they're doing all the work," Helen said, trying to sound friendly to cover for her uncharitable assumptions.
Well, another solution to your problem would be to just get to know your neighbors, get friendly and cover each other's backs -- it doesn't have to be the retailers paying your neighbors to still not get to know you, but just hold your packages.
As a senator, he led hearings that forced the Pentagon to acknowledge a gulf war-era friendly fire cover-up and wrote a two-volume report on government waste and abuse.
