Ah, interesting. And we had Front Cover, mentioned in the article, which didn't say anything about the color but when I looked trhugh the covers it listed, pure green tended not to be used - it tended to be an off green, if it was present at all, and the three covers that had big, bright, green elements were Bret Easton Ellis' Less than Zero, a title I've forgotten by Douglas Coupland*, and Nabokov's Lolita. All of which are intended to be edgy and in-your-face.


* Looking him up on Amazon.com doesn't produce that particular cover, but his All Families are Psychotic is GREEN. Now I want to know how the sales of that book rack up against his others...