The Italian publisher Logos just released the first volume of "Mattotti Works," a hardcover book of images by Lorenzo Mattotti, the artist behind this week's cover, "Winter Warmth".
In January 2015 when Snapchat launched Discover, tapping on the different circular publisher logos would invoke a suspiciously similar animated transition.
After signing up and logging in to the Inkl web app on their mobile device, the user lands straight into an ad-free feed of news stories, badged with publisher logos and parceled into sections such as local, politics, technology and an editor's choice.
Unlike glossy coffee-table tomes of documentary photography, this book had no publisher's logo.
There are earlier versions of poems from Dario's 1905 "Songs of Life and Hope," and a seashell-like sketch he made on top of the publisher's logo on a book's back cover.
"If you are being published by one of the big houses, you can't object that you are not commercial in some way: what book doesn't have the publisher's logo on the spine?" Jonathan Galassi, Mr. Franzen's editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, concurred.
Though Cochrane clearly enjoyed a high reputation among our participants, our study showed that even very small details can cause otherwise trusting users to suddenly question ownership and thereby credibility, such as an "About us" button leading to a page with a publishers' (unfamiliar) logo.
In Fay Weldon's novels there are no ads in the margins of the pages, none on the dust jacket, unless you count the publisher's name and logo, and none on the flyleaves or endpapers.
From this autumn, book covers of participating publishers will bear a logo indicating they are suitable for readers aged 5+, 7+, 9+, 11+ and 13+/teen.
