A quick note about covers, or should I say matching covers?

Why did I decide to write this post? Because I saw this :

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Pandemonium {Delirium, book 2} by Lauren Oliver

Yeah! I totally agree, it's a really lovely cover, I find it gorgeous and awesome, I love the colors, the girl and all. If this has been the cover of a stand-alone novel, I probably would have beamed. I agree it's an utterly magnificent cover. But.. you see.. my previous book was...er.. Let me remember.. Oh, right, like this!!

So it's quite obvious uh huh... those two books don't match! At all. And you know what? Oh that's because, you see, Pandemonium's cover matches with the special edition of Delirium.. See how lovely they are together..

Perhaps I'm kind of a freak with my books. Some people will think I'm definitively crazy because, that's right, I love them all together, lined up in my bookshelves, in mint condition, with matching covers and editions. So now I have to make a choice: either I agree to have covers that don't match or I have to buy Delirium again, as if books weren't shockingly expensive enough. Oh, and you know why I'm especially angry? Because my Delirium copy was signed, yeah as in: I live in France and was lucky enough to get my copy signed when Lauren Oliver came here, which perhaps won't be possible next time.

And it's not the first time. It was the same thing with the UK edition of Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead. The first five books were.. black and then suddenly they decided that the sixth would be red.. Yeah, as if I had the money to buy again FIVE books.

The first five books

The whole series in red with the last one, Last Sacrifice, ONLY available in red

And Vampire Academy is not the only series... It also happened, again *sigh*, with Nightshade by Andrea Cremer.

Previous covers for the hardcover books: Nighsthade {book 1} and Wolfsbane {book 2} (this cover was never ever released)

New covers for the hardcovers: Nightshade book 1 (I haven't seen this one sold anywhere at the moment), Wolfsbane {book 2}, Bloodrose {book 3}

Now I'm pissed off and I really feel cheated. Personally, I feel used, I feel like a cash cow and not respected at all. I'm sure this post won't be read by any publisher, but seriously, I feel as if they didn't care about their readers' feelings. I buy books as soon as they are released, I often preordered them, because if the sales are high enough the series may be longer, or the rights for the author's next book may be bought more easily and it may come out sooner. But now I'm seriously thinking about not buying a single book if the whole series has not been released.

I'm really not against covers' changes, if they are made ONCE the whole series has been released, or if the two versions are available, so the reader can choose if he wants the new one or not. My point is please, let the reader choose!

And you? What are you thinking? Do you like when covers match? Or perhaps you don't care at all?