Last autumn to coincide with the release of Fellowship of the Ring in the theaters Del Rey and Houghton Mifflin rereleased the Lord of the Rings trilogy in hardcover, mass market, and trade paperback editions with photo covers of images taken from the film. This autumn, to coincide with the upcoming film release of The Two Towers Del Rey and Houghton Mifflin rereleased the Lord of the Rings trilogy in mass market and trade paperback, this time with photo images taken presumably from The Two Towers.
Why?
For those people who didn’t buy the trilogy in one form or another in the last year, weren’t last year’s photo covers sufficient? Do we really need another release of the trilogy with different cover images? You can find readily in bookstores pre-2001 releases, last year’s release, and this year’s release of the trilogy. Three different covers of each book vying for shelf space in bookstores.
Maybe it’s good marketing. But there’s an air of pointlessness about the whole exercise.
You missed that there was also art covers of each book that had photocovers.