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Originally Posted by Rob Lister
Nostalgic lamenting from even the decidedly non-Luddite sector, MIT's Technology Review.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog...27783/?ref=rss
Much ado about little, but I too do miss book cover art. When reading pBooks, I'll often pause in my read to refer to the cover, especially when a passage or phrase relates back to what the artist was no doubt conceptualizing when creating the artwork.
Yea, it's there at the beginning but it in an eBook, it isn't something to which you can so casually and easily refer; it takes more than a degree of time and effort.
Maybe I should print out the cover art and tape it to the inside front on the cover!  |
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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
No, I don't think that it is. If I am looking at a book, and I see that the cover looks like it was created by a child, I move on. I don't bother with the blurb, I don't bother with reading the sample. I won't ever buy a book because of the cover, but I might decide not to buy based on the cover. I assume that a sloppy cover indicates a sloppy book.
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Cover art and blurbs written by 5th graders can greatly handicap a book, and yet you see them on good books by intelligent authors.
Why? Did the authors or publishers children need a Saturday project because it was raining and they couldn't go outside?