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Originally Posted by jbcohen
Simply put, I read ebooks - I do not see your cover and I could care less whats there.
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A response that begs two questions:
Could you care more?
How do you choose your ebooks?
If you only ever buy on recommendation from others then it may be that covers don't matter to you, but new writers cherish the hope that there are many readers out there that will look at books without external recommendation. If that hope is valid, then filtering priority must go something like:
1) Location (the book must exist where they shop)
2) Genre (the book should be in the section they are looking)
3) Cover (unless you are getting preferential treatment due to prior sales success or whatever, then this is the only way to catch the eye of someone scanning over the thousands of new releases that come out every month, they can't be expected to read every blurb)
4) Blurb (if you got them this far you've got them further than most)
5) Price (I'm uncertain exactly where this sits, it could be anywere between 3 and 6 depending on the buyer's search technique)
6) Preview
7) Content
And now that I've shed that bit of totally depressing news (that the content that I spent almost two years creating and polishing is only 7th on the list), I'm going away to cry.
