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Old 04-21-2012, 06:55 AM   #50
Rob Lister
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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl View Post
Exactly! Some of us can identify items from a bookshelf of thumbnails faster than a text list of titles and authors, especially if you like to sort your collections by something other than the alphabet. That's why it's good to have options. It's not a defect at all.
I can usually identify a book I've read by its cover, but rarely by its title. This creates problems for me because the cover is generally tied to the publisher, not the author; when rights are purchased by another catalog, the cover changes.

Covers are also important to the branding of an author, especially for series works; all the covers in the series have the same themes. And who cannot instantly identify a harlequin romance by the cover? Is the amount of exposed cleavage on the cover directly proportional to the erotica contained therein? Or is she just a tease.
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