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"I guess in the end it will all come down to Cover design?"
Good ones attract my attention. Bad/cheap covers will often turn me away from a book. If I see another young girl/boy vampire cover, I think it'll toss my cookies.
MR members have been a very good source for books and authors.
Hardcover books, the golden goose for publishers, will over some period of time, be reduced to "Special Collectors Editions".
What is needed is a more sophisticated means of promoting books on the internet. If I go to a website over and over, that site should keep track of books that I NON"T want to see on its front page.
A check list would be nice.
Teenage Romance - Skip
Teenage Vampire Romance - Skip
Books by a certain genre - Skip
Books on gay Polynesian Jewish men about their sex change and conversion to Catholicism after a root canal while abducted by a flying saucer - Skip
If you buy online, merchants can track your reading preferences. If that bothers someone put a check box to exempt yourself from monitoring.
And a box to exempt yourself from email based on your reading preferences.
Once the webpage is cleared of what I consider junk, let them publicize to their hearts content.. What they do now is shotgun blast up into the night air hoping to hit a duck.
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