Development on topic and research

As a part of my primary research I want to find out why books are chosen to be republished. To find this out I thought I emailed Coralie Bickford Smith who works for penguin to see if she could help. She said she would forward me email to her editor who deals with the classics, so now I am waiting to see if I get a reply.

Research

One of the first re organising of penguin was in early-mid 1960's. The idea was to group together new and scholarly editions of literary classics of the nineteenth century and earlier, quite a number of which had already been issued in the Penguin main series.

Wuthering Heights original penguin cover was published in 1968 since then penguin has published this book with different covers many times. I am struggling to find all penguin covers however I found at least 7 covers between 2003 and 2016. I want to look at some of these covers within my essay.

COP3 Presentation

 This is the question I came up with for my dissertation.

The theme will be Penguin book cover design. The reason I am doing this is not only because I love books but also because I am amazed by the success of Penguin and how they are able to redesign a cover of the same books and sell them over and over again.

 I wanted to look at the modernisation and development of the classic collection.

 I found some 2016 collections that I found were successful.

 There is a lack In academic writing on Penguin covers however I found two books that would be helpful.

 Due to the lack of books I think its important to include primary research.

I also had a idea of a final outcome which was to design a collection were the books all have strong female protagonists.

Feedback

After my presentation it was said that my question was two long so I have changed it to 'How have Penguin adapted and changed the designs of their classic covers to stay relevant' My ideas of content were also changed as it would be more beneficial to choose one book and look at all its covers rather than whole collections. This has changed the idea of the outcome, which I am still thinking about. I want to start primary research by trying to find out why books are chosen to be republished.