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Originally Posted by LovesMacs
The New York Times recently had an article about the competing book covers for "The Great Gatsby": the original blue cover with the disembodied face, and a movie tie-in edition featuring the cast from the new Baz Luhrmann film.
This got me thinking: do book covers make a difference, especially with e-books?
Despite the saying that "you can't judge a book by its cover", I find myself doing that. When I see a cover that looks as it took all of 30 seconds to design, it makes me wonder, perhaps unfairly, how carelessly produced the contents are if so little attention was given to the cover. And I wonder about that even in the era of e-books, when covers are less visible than before.
What are your thoughts on this? |
You took the words right out of my mouth LovesMacs. If a cover doesn't look well done I'd have to wonder if the book's text was any better. I mean if I go in for a job interview and I look disheveled is the potential employer likely to offer me a job? Not likely. And I think the cover serves a similar purpose. It's the 1st thing as a prospective buyer that I will see when I go somewhere looking for a book. It's not a deep hook in that I could still decide (even if the cover does look good) that I don't want to buy that particular book, but it's the 1st thing that piques my interest in the possibility of buying it.