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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
Honestly, that's fine by me, but the thought that the cover makes up so much of the buyers choice these days is kinda startling. I mean, look at covers from the 1800's and early 1900's. Bland, text based covers, and yet people still bought, but only because of the merits of the book itself.
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So many more books available nowadays, there is no way you have time to (physically or virtually) pick them all up and read the synopsis, maybe the first few pages. Something has to grab you to make
this book worth looking at. And the first filter is genre, the second is title and cover.
Conversely a poor cover can deter you from ever picking the book up. I suppose subconciously there is the assumption that if so little effort has been put into the cover, there probably wasn't much put into the text either.