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Do people actually select their books that way, though? By random browsing? I guess I'm weird, because I never really do that.
In my case, I am either looking for an author I already want, a subject I'm already looking for, or a publisher I trust. (I use the latter a lot for fiction. If it's a Penguin crime novel, for instance, I have a good chance of liking it, I've noticed.)
The only time a cover will strike me is at the library, and honestly, more often than not, it's been a bad choice.
I just think that's backward-looking thinking, given there are plenty of other ways to get a person to look at a mid-list author.
Now, I do think we might lose some of these kinds of authors, but I think that's more due to the large volume of books out there tends to dilute sales, not the fact that they are e-books.
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