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covers
The result of this discussion seems to be that a good cover is important as an eye-catcher (a hook, as it was said), but the information of the blurb and the reading of some part of the book make the decision. But this is the situation in a bookstore with printed books and this forum is about ebooks and online bookselling.
For finding a book of interest you don't look around for covers, but you use filters and search-engines. And than you will get a selection of books, one listed beneath annother, and, for a quicker loading, you may opt for "Covers off". So how important is a good cover? I think, it is unimportant, because, when looking at the selection, you may look at the covers, but you will read the description, and, if you are interested, you will read a sample and maybe some reviews before you make a decision. But I don't think that you say "Oh, this is a nice cover. I will enlarge it."
When it was said before, that you need a good cover to get the attraction of a potential reader, it will be different in online bookselling. You need the right tags and a description with the most important keywords for your work, so that your book will be listed in the selection of the search-engine. The cover doesn't help.
I don't want to hijack this thread, but I would like to know, what you think of a different design for ebook covers, regarding the miniatures shown at online-marketplaces. For instance, the covers of DrDln seem to be very conventional (no offence!) as they are for printed books. But in this size I can hardly (if not) read the text and I don't see what some covers (at the right) are about, covers, that are not very useful when shown in the size of stamps.
And now look at the minimalistic style of G J Lau's Magpie: only a few colors (think of 16-greyscale-devices), clear lines, a readable title and a decent author.
So, what about a different design for ebook covers?
George
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