Craig Mod:
The covers for our digital editions need not yell. Need not sell. Heck, they may very well never been seen. The reality is, entire books need to be treated as covers. Entry points into digital editions aren’t strictly defined and they’re only getting fuzzier. Internet readers don’t casually stumble upon books set atop tables.
Mod writes an interesting essay on the role of book covers in a digital world. The purpose that those covers served on traditional books is no longer applicable. Part of this transition extends beyond necessity and into design. It is that design that Mod states is crucial moving forward. We must now think of the book itself as the cover - we must hack the cover.