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gmw, you are right, the cover should lure readers to read the description (except for my favorite big names Rowling, Robb, Ward, King and then the description could just be the word "buy" 100 times and I would buy it since I don't bother reading the description or looking at the cover anyway.)
If I see more than 10 words of a review snippet before the actual description I refuse to buy it or download it if it's offered for free. Don't even get me started on the new trend of groups of authors having a free 'partay' with all of the links to the other books offered for free in the description area before I can find out about the book I originally clicked on. That was what originally irritated me enough to start writing the post.
I have had tons of feedback via social media about the post but I find it funny that only 1 person out of the 1000+ views even admitted to doing the practice. To tell the truth she wasn't even one of the authors I was complaining about and her descriptions were not overloaded with reviews anyway.
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