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* The teaser poster to ''[[http://cinemablend.com/gallery/previews/Cirque-du-Freak-The-Vampire-s-Assistant-3663.html?tid=22564 The Vampire's Assistant]]'' (based on the first three DarrenShan books). Because, hey, vampires!

* ''FiftyShadesOfGrey'' is a particularly interesting example of this, considering that it started out as a {{Twilight}} fanfic.

* A lot of books ape the ''FiftyShadesOfGrey'' covers, even having similar titles.

* Variation: DavidBowie notes in the retrospective book ''Moonage Daydream'' that after ''The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars'' hit big, his older albums ''Space Oddity'' and ''The Man Who Sold the World'' were rereleased with photos of him as Ziggy on the covers. The albums were folk rock and HeavyMetal respectively (as opposed to the GlamRock of Ziggy), but "All this fuss actually put ''Oddity'' in the US Top Twenty, years after its original release."

* ''PrivateEye'' has recently started a column about this phenomenon called "Bookalikes", although they occasionally branch into other media such as album covers.

* The posters to ''AwayWeGo'', ''Year of the Dog'', and ''Surfwise'' all have a cartoonish quality to them. Small wonder, they were all designed by [[http://www.impawards.com/designers/mojo.html the same company]], who also handled the posters for several comic book movies, including ''Film/ThreeHundred'', ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'', ''Whiteout'', and ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles''. Ironically enough, those posters do not use comics imagery to sell the film.

* FiftyShadesofGrey has tons of these, even with similar titles.

* The ''Charlie Bone'' books-- both the [[http://www.jennynimmo.me.uk/USTheCharlieBoneSeries.html US covers]] and the [[http://www.egmont.co.uk/search.asp?action=SearchBooks&pageid=3&intCharacterId=32 UK covers]] reflect the design of their Potter counterparts.

* Maggie Stiefvater's [[http://www.maggiestiefvater.com/novels.php#faerie Books of Faerie]]''.

Distinct from just pure homage, where the cover is deliberately designed to make the viewer think of that specific work-- this is a marketing thing. Also different from tie-in covers, which exist to let [[ViewersAreMorons movie-goers]] know that the thing they saw was based on a book. (Even Twilight got those, for some reason.)

See also: CopycatCover

* Other PhilippaGregory examples: [[http://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/08/58/08588f326b984bf5979646859674141414c3441.jpg The Queen's Fool]], [[http://www.likesbooks.com/coverballot/2004/HST-04i.jpg The Virgin's Lover]]

* Variation: DavidBowie notes in the retrospective book ''Moonage Daydream'' that after ''The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars'' hit big, his older albums ''Space Oddity'' and ''The Man Who Sold the World'' were rereleased with photos of him as Ziggy on the covers. The albums were folk rock and Music/HeavyMetal respectively (as opposed to the GlamRock of Ziggy), but "All this fuss actually put ''Oddity'' in the US Top Twenty, years after its original release."

* Compare the posters of ''Film/IronMan3'' and ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. Both feature the eponymous heroes clutching their respective lady friends in the center, with their foes overlooking them, and their allies off to the sides.

** ''AwayWeGo'' always struck me as inspired by ''Juno'''s credits sequence, with the markered-up photocopy look.

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* Check out the poster of the new film ''{{Inception}}'' [[http://www.bleedingcool.com/2009/12/16/swipe-file-christopher-nolans-dark-knight-and-christopher-nolans-inception/ as compared to the poster for]] ''Film/TheDarkKnight''. Partially justified in that both films were directed by ChristopherNolan.

* The ''Film/{{Spacebals}}'' Collector's Edition DVD [[http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/spaceballs.html case and menus]] evoke a ''Franchise/StarWars'' DVD.

* A new [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/1442403012/sr=1-5/qid=1260460101 bind-up]] of V.C. Andrews's incest classics ''Flowers in the Attic'' and ''Petals in the Wind''.

* The various Penguin books.

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* The [[http://promo.simonandschuster.com/Spiderwick/ covers]] for the ''SpiderwickChronicles''.

* The posters to ''AwayWeGo'', ''Year of the Dog'', and ''Surfwise'' all have a cartoonish quality to them. Small wonder, they were all designed by [[http://www.impawards.com/designers/mojo.html the same company]], who also handled the posters for several comic book movies, including ''Film/ThreeHundred'', ''{{Watchmen}}'', ''Whiteout'', and ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles''. Ironically enough, those posters do not use comics imagery to sell the film.

* [[http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n38/n192416.jpg Sam Bourne's covers]] bear a noticable resemblance to the [[http://encefalus.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/davinci_code.jpg UK edition]] of ''TheDaVinciCode''.

* The BuffyTheVampireSlayer tie-in books have been released in new [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Buffy-Vampire-Slayer-Coyote-Through/dp/1442412097/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1293374676&sr=1-2 omnibus editions]], with covers that look suspiciously like the Twilight collector's editions (white cover, solitary object, red and black detail). Even more suspiciously, they were released at a similar time to the Twilight editions, and have been shoved in the 'Twilight rip-off' sections of UK bookstores, along with the new editions of the Vampire Diaries and Wuthering Heights.

''FiftyShadesOfGrey'' is a particularly interesting example of this, considering that it started out as a {{Twilight}} fanfic.