![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Anything that gets the kids to look at them." But at Book Passage, Corte Madera and San Francisco, Calif., a special display was not a draw. As a bookseller, I appreciate the classics and I love when I can sell them to a new generation. That's the case at the Book Revue, Huntington, N.Y., where Julie Klein said, "I wasn't sure they would sell at all, to be honest. ![]() We wanted to appeal to that teenager and give a fresh look to these stories that have been around a very long time." Sales of some repackaged titles have been strong. The title and author are scrawled in cursive over a large pool of blood, rivulets of red dripping down the page." Concerning the Dracula cover, Puffin president and publisher Eileen Kreit, said, "We had that Urban Outfitters customer in mind. Examples include Romeo "in stubble and a tight white tank top on a new Penguin edition of Romeo and Juliet" a Harper cover for Wuthering Heights with "a stark black background, a close-up of a red rose and an inscription that reads, 'Bella & Edward's favorite book' " and a Puffin cover of Dracula with "a ghostly woman floating in the center, her platinum hair flying in the air. In order "to tap into the soaring popularity of the young-adult genre," publishers are putting new covers on classics-"provocative, modern jackets in bold shades of scarlet and lime green that are explicitly aimed at teenagers raised on Twilight and the Hunger Games," the New York Times wrote. ![]()
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