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[Red Crayon Aristocrat]

I asked this on reddit once and was 100% ignored so here goes nothing, maybe someone here will have some idea.

The 2000s style of his paperback republished novels, as seen here, when did they start and when did they stop being printed in this style?

Stephen King's books keep getting republished with different covers over the decades, for example here are what the 90s ones looked like.

But I'm interested in which they stopped the 2000s style since those were many of what I first read as a teen, as far as I can tell they started in 2002 and ended in 2009 with a re-release of Dolores Claiborne, but I can't seem to tell for sure, does anyone know anything about this?

 

[rm082e]

I bought most of mine during that 90s run. I definitely had a bit of a collectors itch to get them all. I had almost everything written prior to The Green Mile, then I was buying those when they were the new release:

Goodreads says that version you're asking about was Jan 1 2003? Not sure if they're just ballparking it.

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

Wow...looking back at all of those releases and the amount of changes they made with each reprint is crazy. I can recognize all of the books I had growing up but the serial series for the green mile looks great.

NGL...not a fan of The Stand reprint at the top for some reason...gives me 50's horror movie poster vibe.

 

[SpiceRacz]

Hard to pinpoint when it started and ended. I remember buying the Dark Tower books and reading through them around 2004 - 2006ish. The first 3 or 4 books had that cover style.

 

[Artoris]

I did not buy many books in that time period

 

[bitbydeath]

Some info can be found here:
Signet printed them, so next step would be to find out when the signet run was.

 

[Trogdor1123]

I hate when they make so many changes to covers.

This does remind me how amazing the stand was/is though. Might need to listen to it again on audible

 

[Avid Reading Horse]

Did you try asking Stephen King? I think he's on Bluesky and I'm pretty sure he would never go back to Twitter so don't even look there but ask him on Bluesky.

 

[kruis]

Some info can be found here:
Signet printed them, so next step would be to find out when the signet run was.

Oh, boy, the guy who designed these covers didn't put any work into those. Just a bunch of photos grabbed from some photo licensing site with minimal additional editing. The cover for "The Running Man" is both laughable and sad ...

 

[jason10mm]

Not an answer to your question bit a favorite shirt of mine...

 

[AJUMP23]

King is a hack. I do not buy his books.

He is really prolific. But I don't buy his stuff.