Since you explicitly asked for criticism:
- Pie chart labels are too small.
- I don't like the thick partial border around the work segment - makes it look like a clock, which is perhaps deliberate as it's gesturing at time - but I look at it and think 'this is a book about 5 o' clock'.
- I don't like The Cornerstone Press label going vertically, and I'm unsure of how it relates to the Penguin logo.
- I think 'that does good' is a bit of a flat subtitle. Too vague. I much prefer the wording on the site: ridiculously in-depth is ballsy, and I like it! That should be on the cover.
- I would've tried for an endorsement from a more mainstream figure in society, like a celebrity or something... I don't know, Stephen Fry? Lex Friedman? Rutger Bregman is very known in EA, I'm not sure how known outside of EA, and since he's written a book on a similar topic, one might see that and think 'why should I read both?'
Also the link to the alternative design doesn't work.
Learning of this book launch also has me wondering: how is this book different to Moral Ambition or the HIP playbook?
Anyway, there's my tuppence worth. Are you asking because the cover is still editable? Congratulations on the launch!
Question for AIM folks: what's the thinking behind running a very involved process twice per year, as opposed to recruiting from near-misses from previous rounds?
Are there savings to be made here? Asking as someone deeply concerned with cost effectiveness as a vital principle of EA... and a former finalist!
And they call us a cult. A 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡!
I skimmed your examples and think neither should meet the bar for a 'little telling off.'
In light of the Netflix doccos coming out later this year, and whatever other scandal might be waiting around the corner, I think we ought to ease up on this level of public language policing. The critics are coming; let's not make their job easy for them (nor convert from within our own community).
Lol you had me for a moment there!