Amazon’s New Book Cover Maker Might Invoke My Gag Reflex

Via mine own two eye-orbs and then Tobias Buckell here, Amazon hopes to make all those unedited conspiracy theory e-books look a little more credible.

More info here, but here’s a screenshot from that post:
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Eh. It’s a step forward from what amateur writer-cum-designer people can come up with, but nothing beats what professional designers can do, especially those that focus on book art and layout.

In my mind, I’m comparing this to a theoretical CD cover designer, which I have not come across but I’m sure exists somewhere, languishing from disuse now that digital media and Google images are normalized. Any band who is worth their weight in weird haircuts would not use a template for a CD cover.

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