Thread: What would make Kobo surpass Kindle?
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Old 12-07-2017, 01:04 PM   #250
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
Quite a few ebooks lately, the cover image has the title and then a one or two line subtitle. Kind of like Star Warriors as the title and then Thrilling Tales of Derring-do, Alien Races, Exploration and Adventure in the Future! as a subtitle. For some reason, it now seems popular to have the book title show with all that text. Calibre does make it easy to remove the extraneous text but it's much easier not to have it there.
Actually, Star Warriors - Thrilling Tales of Derring-do, Alien Races, Exploration and Adventure in the Future! does sound like a fun book. If the subtitle is included to add flavor to the book (like the Star Wars novelization that read Star Wars - From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker), I don't mind it.

The ones that bug me are the categorization ones, baldly meant as a search/sales tactic. To use a few real examples: Lineage: A Supernatural Thriller, Fireball - A compelling crime thriller

I guess your made up example and my factual ones aren't much different. Yet I liked yours and didn't like mine. Maybe there's a fine line to be walked with these titles.
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