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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Once again, I was not posting asking for solutions.
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OK, but I'm asking how you know things? I'm supposing you're familiar with this solution and you think it has flaws which allow you to say raised capitals can't be reliably done. Would you kindly share your experience?
I'm using this "solution" myself, but if you can pin point how it's unreliable I might drop entirely the idea of using it and I would be happy knowing more.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I appreciate that you've discovered that the effect cover images has on readers/sales as a whole is quantifiable and proves that cover images are relevant to that same whole. However ... none of it proves that there aren't individuals who don't fall into the average/majority category that their research shows they need to focus on.
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If you stay inside your house all days, then perhaps you're not getting a tan, but the sun has an effect regardless, even on you, if you were to step outside.
I don't believe you're immune to visual stimuli. And you surely have things you hold dear, whose representation trigger your interest. Even if you try to explain your logical mind has absolute power over you, that since you think covers are pointless then looking at them does nothing to you, we know it isn't so.
Perhaps your purchasing method is very good and very healthy, as you can't judge a book by it's cover, but we can't help it and we try to compensate. The very act of compensation is you being affected by covers anyway.
To say otherwise would be like saying that you don't judge people by their look.
If you can figure yourself loving a serie, and one day in the future wandering off and seeing a cover whose art you are familiar with, displayed behind a window in the streets, you stop: it's the latest book of that serie, released with a 10 years gap (the author need money and wrote a new one late). This will be you being influenced by a consistently designed cover.