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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But if you know nothing about the book and nothing about the author, would you even get to reading the description of the book if it has a bad cover? That's where a bad cover fails to sell the book.
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course I would get to reading the description. It's the single-most important thing for me to look at. Even the most fantastically well-done cover art is hardly ever indicative of the quality (let alone the nature) of the content of the book it adorns. It costs me nothing to divorce my appreciation (or lack thereof) of one from the other. I hate many of the covers of books I've loved over the years, and of the rest, the overwhelming majority are underwhelming to me. Least relevant part of a book in my opinion. Rather it wasn't there at all to be honest. I don't care how well singers can dance either.
Besides ... I don't do very much random book-browsing anyway. Nine times out of ten, the author or the book came up in conversation somewhere.
Say what you will, but I believe word of mouth about solid content is going to drive more horses to water than pretty covers will. Nobody's ever going to "shiny bauble" their book into a hit, in my opinion, so keep it simple and direct your focus on the part of the book that will have the most impact on its success.