Alternate covers?

[Damocles Guile]

Browsing Amazon, I see completely different covers than the AP books I recieve via subscription and by and large I like them a lot better - are these only available through the general market or is there some option I've missed?

[James Jacobs]

Usually when we announce a book, we don't yet have the final cover available to show off, but we have to show something... as a result, we create temporary placeholder covers that then get sent out to the world as solicitations and announcements. Amazon has a REALLY bad habit of uploading these temporary images to their store and then never ever updating those images up to the final covers, so what you're probably seeing on Amazon are the temporary covers—these covers were never printed, and in fact, the art itself is always taken from other Pathfinder product interior illustrations.

That said... we DID do alternate coves for Pathfinder #1 and Pathfinder #13, to celebrate the releases of those two volumes at Gen Con.

[Damocles Guile]

James Jacobs wrote:

Usually when we announce a book, we don't yet have the final cover available to show off, but we have to show something... as a result, we create temporary placeholder covers that then get sent out to the world as solicitations and announcements. Amazon has a REALLY bad habit of uploading these temporary images to their store and then never ever updating those images up to the final covers, so what you're probably seeing on Amazon are the temporary covers—these covers were never printed, and in fact, the art itself is always taken from other Pathfinder product interior illustrations.

That said... we DID do alternate coves for Pathfinder #1 and Pathfinder #13, to celebrate the releases of those two volumes at Gen Con.

Ah - that makes perfect sense. I thought some of the images looked familiar. Thanks for the prompt explanation.

[Poison Pie]

I am going to revive this thread that has been inactive for three years!

I love pretty much everything about the Pathfinder Adventure Paths, including the plots, the art and the bestiary at the back. I also like the covers. For my own viewing pleasure, I assembled a page containing a gallery of the covers from the Pathfinder Adventure Paths. For those interested, it is here:

http://tinyurl.com/zexrfvk

Then I thought about making a gallery of the Adventure Path alternate covers that we see all over the internet (including amazon). So I spent a couple hours scouring the internet and assembled an analogous page here:

http://tinyurl.com/gownhyc

I found the alternate covers for every issue except #3!
Does anyone have an old jpg of #3 lying around on their harddrive? If so, post it!

I also found the third alternate cover of #13 mentioned in the previous post (but there was no place to post it given the grid format of these pages).

I also noted that curiously, the alternate covers for The Serpent's Skull had two different backgrounds (unlike all the other adventure paths, which had only one).

These covers are beautiful. Paizo should make a big coffee table book with both sets of adventure path cover art!

Thanks!

David

[Vic Wertz]

Sometimes, the actual cover *is* ready when we announce a product. I can't say for sure whether that was the case with #3 or not—this is not the type of thing we keep track of—but it is a possibility.

[Cpt_kirstov]

note, there is a button on amazon to let them know the picture is inaccurate... I will occasionally report a whole bunch of products, linking to the paizo page with the correct cover. about 2 weeks later someone has changed them.