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Originally Posted by Dutchbook
Why should the cover matter?
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Is that a rhetorical question?
For reference, this is a great place to start:
http://www.creativindie.com/8-cover-...-buying-books/
Even though we make our shekels, at my biz, formatting eBooks, I tell clients that if they HAVE TO choose, choose a commercial cover design(er) over professional formatting.
Before I got into the biz, I had a friend who was a book shepherd. She told me that cover design was THE most important thing, in a book. I guffawed and said that was ridiculous, the BOOK mattered.
I was wrong. In 3500+ eBooks, I've learned that great covers can sell mediocre books, mediocre covers can sink great books, and a horrible cover is instant book book-i-cide. Seriously. I can prove it, using a series of books done by a client, just based on the covers. It's MIND-boggling.
A bad cover=instant death for a self-pubbed book.
Hitch