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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Without a cover that looks interesting enough at postage stamp size nobody will even look at the content. For people who've never heard of you the process is this:
Cover --> blurb --> first sentence --> first chapter --> buy book
You lose buyers at every stage, but they will never reach the last stage if they don't even make it to the first one.
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Agreed. I think a cover needs to convey the following information:
genre (fiction/non-fiction, sub-genre)
professionalism
distinctiveness... how is it different from the other books being offered in the same sub-genre? What makes this book stand out?
From experience, I know that good covers don't necessarily have good books, and bad covers don't necessarily have bad books. But a good cover shows that the author put some more care in another part of the business aspect of book selling and is taking it seriously, not just as a quick-get-rich-scheme. There's a lot of books out there that IMHO should not be sold because they're unfinished products, and an indie author should do her best to get her books recognized as "wheat" over the flood of chaff we have on the internet.