Opening the book box. A tale of two covers.

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There’s nothing to whet the appetite for a book launch like boxes of of the long-awaited book. But although you might not notice from this photo, these two consignments aren’t quite the same. How come?

Our proof copies of Blink (this is its stable name by the way, books are like race-horses in that respect) had ‘gloss’ finish covers, possibly by default.  Very nice they were too, but fiction is traditionally matte finish (if you hadn’t notice check those bookshelves now) and although In the...