Never been much into instant gratification. If I could buy books printed on vellum I probably would
When I buy books on-line (digital or print) I almost always know what I want before I go to the site as a result of a review or recommendation. Occasionally I'll also buy something from the "other people also bought..." list. The other day, when buying Kate Chopin's Awakening as a gift, I also bought Ann Veronica by H.G. Wells. I'd never heard of it, didn't even know he wrote anything of a feminist nature. They were print editions, not e-books.
Dave - I think the book with large e-book sales and small print sales was a lightweight, both in terms of mass and content, self-help text. Possibly diet, fitness, or mindfulness, from my cardiac therapists reading list.
@Hitch - after reading Murphy's blog post, I can appreciate that the cover design would matter for some genre of fiction - fantasy, horror, sci-fi etc, like strap-lines matter for newspaper articles. But I don't read
much any of that these days. And I'm a very non-visual person - no pictures on my walls, no boxes of family photos in my closets, I remove covers from ebooks etc.
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