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Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« on: October 15, 2010, 03:19:08 PM »
Well, let me start this thread by sharing something I've found by some random googling a while ago:

Obviously, this is about the re-release.

[spoiler=If you can't read PDF files(like the one above), open this spoiler to see what it says...]

ANIMORPHS SERIES
By K.A. Applegate
Ages 8-12

ANIMORPHS has sold over 20
million copies worldwide!

The first six books of Animorphs return,
with striking new lenticular covers that
morph!

View the animated GIF of the cover file,
which showcases the amazing lenticulars
featured on each cover!


Scholastic will re-launch the internationally bestselling Animorphs series in
Summer 2011, starting with a six-book arc. In its heyday, the Animorphs series
sold over 20 million copies worldwide and was translated in 26 languages
and was turned into a popular Nickelodeon TV show.

For the re-launch, Scholastic has updated the covers to give them a fresh, modern
look: in keeping with the eye-catching nature of the original covers, the new books
will make use of morphing lenticulars: the characters transform right on the
covers.

An updated look gives the series new vitality for a new generation of readers.
Animorphs is sci-fi at its best: fast-paced, thought-provoking, and a lot of
fun!

Book 1: THE INVASION (May 2011)
The Earth is being invaded, but no one knows about it. When Jake, Rachel, Tobias,
Cassie, and Marco stumble upon a downed alien spaceship and its dying pilot, they're
given an incredible power -- they can transform into any animal they touch. With it,
they become Animorphs, the unlikely champions in a secret war for the planet. And
the enemies they're fighting could be anyone, even the people closest to them. So
begins K.A. Applegate's epic series about five normal kids with a limitless amount of
forms and abilities.

Book 2: THE VISITOR (May 2011)
Rachel is still reeling from the news that the Earth is secretly under attack by
parasitic aliens known as the Yeerks. And that she and her friends -- five kids who,
purely by chance, stumbled onto a downed spacecraft and were given the power to
morph into any animal they touch -- are the planet's only defense. But Rachel's
always been something of a daredevil. So when it's suggested that they infiltrate the
home of their assistant principal, Mr. Chapman, who also happens to be a human
host of the Yeerks, she volunteers. But what she finds inside may be more than even
she can handle.

K. A. Applegate is the author of the bestselling ANIMORPHs
series, as well as the Remnants and Everworld series, Home of
the Brave, and the Roscoe Riley Rules series. She lives in
Minnesota.
She won the Best New Children's Book Series Award in 1997 in
Publishers Weekly.

Pub Plan:
• Animorphs #01: The Invasion - May 2011
• Animorphs #02: The Visitor - May 2011
• Animorphs #03: The Encounter - July 2011
• Animorphs #04: The Message - October 2011
• Animorphs #05: The Predator - January 2012
• Animorphs #06: The Capture - April 2012

ANIMORPHS has sold in 26 languages!

Publishers for all those languages:
Spanish / Spain : EDICIONES B
Spanish / Latin America : EMECÉ
Catalan : EDICIONES B
Portuguese / Portugal : BERTRAND
Portuguese / Brazil : ROCCO
Italian : MONDADORI
French : GALLIMARD JEUNESSE
German : RAVENSBURGER
Dutch : ZUIDNEDERLANDSE
Danish : EGMONT
Norwegian : GYLDENDAL
Swedish : WAHLSTROMS
Finnish : TAMMI
Polish : EGMONT
Czech : SVOJTKA & CO.
Hungarian : EDITIONS PASSAGE
Greek : KEDROS
Turkish : ALTIN KITAPLAR
Hebrew : HED ARZI
Russian : ROSMAN
Japanese : HAYAKAWA SHOBO
Chinese : GOLDEN PEACH PUBLISHING
Korean : GOLDEN BOUGH
Vietnamese : TRE
Thai : AKSARAPIPAT
Bahasa Indonesian : PT GRAMEDIA

Contact:
Aragó, 224-pral-2
080011 Barcelona
Spain
T: +34 93 323 89 70
F: +34 93 451 48 69
office@uklitag.com
http://www.uklitag.com
[/spoiler]
What was in the spoiler is all copy-pasted from the file. I didn't remove anything, but the pictures weren't included in the copy-paste, sadly.
[spoiler=But I uploaded the most interesting one, which is the new cover for The Invasion.][/spoiler]


What are your thoughts about this?

goom says: fixed the link.
« Last Edit: December 09, 2010, 04:49:00 PM by Magdaleen »

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Re: Check out what I found~
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2010, 03:30:31 PM »
Huh.  I wouldn't have considered the first six books an "arc", but I guess they're gonna see what the response is before they commit to more?

I like  what I can see of the cover.  It's completely different, but still pretty cool.

Edit: I just noticed: the publishing schedule is one volume every THREE months??  How do they expect to release them all with that much time to cover?  They'll lose a lot of the new market's interest that way, too.  I mean, I could barely wait ONE month!
« Last Edit: October 15, 2010, 03:34:14 PM by Aermin »

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Re: Check out what I found~
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2010, 03:35:46 PM »
I had a problem with the link... is the coding set up like this?: 
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[url=http://uklitag.com/site/attach/animorphs_sheet_en.pdf] It's about the re-release![/url]
I'm not sure why they picked those six as a 'set', but whatever... That reeks about them only releasing four in '11. Maybe after they see some good sales numbers, they'll speed it up.

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Re: Check out what I found~
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2010, 03:39:20 PM »
I do like the cover, can't really tell what the animal is, but at least this much is promising so far

good to see, but may is still 7 months away, lets see what happens
Something, something, oh crap I pissed everyone off again....

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Re: Check out what I found~
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2010, 03:42:57 PM »
@Josh--Can you not view the image or what?
I'm trying to view the image, but it only goes down halfway. And good grief, so much time in between!

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Re: Check out what I found~
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2010, 03:49:56 PM »
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Edit: I just noticed: the publishing schedule is one volume every THREE months??  How do they expect to release them all with that much time to cover?  They'll lose a lot of the new market's interest that way, too.  I mean, I could barely wait ONE month!

Considering the first books were published every other month... it's really not that bad.

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Re: Check out what I found~
« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2010, 03:59:42 PM »
@Josh--Can you not view the image or what?
I can see the picture, but the link ( It's about the re-release!) wasn't working for me... I did find the site though.

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Re: Check out what I found~
« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2010, 04:10:39 PM »
@Josh--Can you not view the image or what?
I can see the picture, but the link ( It's about the re-release!) wasn't working for me... I did find the site though.

Oh, yeah, that. Thanks for the right link. ;D

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Re: Check out what I found~
« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2010, 04:43:19 PM »
Heck to the YEAH! I'm glad we finally got some new info on this. Time to go bug my non-Animorphs friends about the franchise again. ;D
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Re: Check out what I found~
« Reply #9 on: October 15, 2010, 06:30:36 PM »
[citation needed]
i don't see their sources for this information. is there any other legitimate sites confirming these facts?



fixed the link as well (i noticed you had "quote" marks)

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Re: Check out what I found~
« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2010, 05:54:46 AM »
Am I the only one who doesn't like the new cover? Hmph.

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Re: Check out what I found~
« Reply #11 on: October 16, 2010, 09:32:47 AM »
[citation needed]
i don't see their sources for this information. is there any other legitimate sites confirming these facts?


I don't know about that, but the agency itself seems to be a genuine literary agency, and Scholastic is listed as one of their US clients. I'd like to see AppleGrant confirm it though.

I'm glad that if this is true then they are releasing the first 6 rather than the first 2, even if it is spaced out a bit. I think people are used to waiting longer between books these days (Harry Potter, anyone? Percy Jackson? Hunger Games? The monthly series is dead). The first 6 books encompasses a LOT. We get the intro to the invasion, a narration from all characters except Ax, Ax's intro to the series, and a peak into the world of the Yeerks. I think that's plenty of information to base the success of a more comprehensive re-release on. Although, if I had my way it'd be the first 22 released. :D :D

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Re: Check out what I found~
« Reply #12 on: October 16, 2010, 09:35:39 AM »
Am I the only one who doesn't like the new cover? Hmph.

Ditto, it's a real eye sore. I do wonder though, will the pages still morph?
Meh.


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Re: Check out what I found~
« Reply #13 on: October 16, 2010, 10:24:55 AM »
I like the new cover, it's different but not bad.
And this is good news: 6 over 2 ^^ even if I hoped they'd wait less between the books, but I hope that what Warren's supposed will happen.
I think I'm gonna buy a few of the new volumes... even if I still want to have the old release in English >_< (By the way, my birthday is soon, nobody wanna pay the shipping for me :pwease: lol)
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Re: Check out what I found~
« Reply #14 on: October 16, 2010, 12:31:43 PM »
The new cover looks a lot like Alternamorphs.