We are Iran

Here is the UK cover for a book on Iranian bloggers:

Your screen is OK, the image has lots of white space.  Here is the US cover of the same book:

Are U.S. covers in general more literal?  Here is the the source; the fascinating blog is devoted to discussing book covers.  Here is the UK-US comparison for David Mitchell’s excellent Cloud Atlas.  Here is the Turkish cover of Freakonomics.  Here is an iPod ad from the Czech Republic.