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Message: <blockquote data-quote="neg" data-source="post: 1763861" data-attributes="member: 4431">CoversYeah Baen seems to have kept the same artist since almost inception of the imprint, which makes there covers just too similar book to book in my opinion.  Tor had a little bit of the same habit, especially on their fiction side imprint called Forge.  However, I think they have gotten away from that in the past few years.  Much to the betterment of the books and the sales.  Still a wider array of covers would only further benefit us.  But publishing is always looking for repeated successes, so innovation isn't always at the top of the list.I haven't read Martin, but I have read Cook and Jordan.  Erikson falls into the Cook comparison easily, but I don't know about the Jordan comparison, though I have only read Eye of the World.Sadly publishing always has found the need to draw easy boxed comparisons for sell in and sell through.  Buyers/readers/salesman/editors et all...would rather know who a person writes like rather than what makes them stand out from the pack so that they can easily draw comparisons and nod their heads.  It is just the way the business works.   For Fiction it is Da Vinci Code, before that it was Lovely Bones, before that it was Nanny Diaries.  For Sci-Fi/Fantasy it is almost always Jordan, Goodkind, Brookes (I see that fewer than the other two), Martin, and Orson Scott Card.  It is the nature of the business.-neg</blockquote>