Scientific American has been continuously publishing for 170 years, so they must be doing something right.

Let’s have some fun.

Test your knowledge of Covers That Sell.  I’ll show you 4 of their 12 covers in 2014.  Using Canadian sales data, your task is to rank them from best to worst.

Guess in which order they ranked:  #1, #2, #3 and #12 worst.

Here are the 4 covers (no peaking, pan down slowly, as answers are provided at the bottom).

Jan 2014

Oct 2014

Nov 2014

Dec 2014







And the Answers Are:

#1 Seller in Canada…Nov 2014, Meditation, sold 9,819  (Must have been the subject)

#2 Seller in Canada…Jan 2014,  Mind, sold 8,990  (Best looking cover of the year)

#3 Seller in Canada…Dec 2014, Ideas, sold 8,459  (Big Type Treatment)

#12 Worst Seller in Canada…Oct 2014, Big Bang, sold 5,587  (Huge failure…very drab)