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Originally Posted by gmw
(Sorry, I'm a bit late to the party, been very busy lately.)
I found it almost impossible to offer comment on the first images you posted, without context the symbols didn't really give me any idea how the cover might might.
Of the second set of images you posted, I liked the third best (with the almost complete border) - mostly this choice is determined by it being a slightly better fit with your already published first book.
I have to be blunt though, I'm not really enthusiastic about any of them.
The use of black and white with a very plain font gives a very simple appearance that is obviously deliberate, and reasonably tasteful (at full size). But the problem with this approach is that it is also quite generic. They remind me of covers put on re-issued classics.
The second problem I have is that neither the font choice, nor the overall cover, works well in small thumbnails. I don't think the covers make good use of the space available to them.
The third problem also relates the thumbnail appearance but specifically targets the simple black on white: in a list of book thumbnails your cover for this second book will almost merge into the general (background) text of a typical page, rather than stand out as an image of a book cover (you can see this already with your existing sample image for the book on Amazon, it looks more like a pencil sketch than a book cover).
It's possibly too late to change this style for this particular book, since the changes needed would mean that it did not match well with the first book in the series. So unless you were willing to re-issue the first book with a new matching cover, you are a bit stuck.
(I hope that doesn't read too harshly, but you did ask.)
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Thank you, gmw. No, your words aren't harsh at all. In fact, they make perfect sense.