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Originally Posted by JSWolf
That may be, but as stand-alone covers, they are absolute garbage. They got voted for on Goodreads due to all the girls who like sparkly vampires. When you are voting for the best cover(s), you should be looking at just the cover and no voting based on the book. It's not supposed to be a popularity contest. It's supposed to be about the best covers, not some of the worst covers aka Twilight series.
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Highlight mine. Possibly you didn't meant that clause quite the way it sounds. The best book cover should not only be about the cover, but how well that cover sells the content. So the cover must be appropriate to the content. If it turns the right audience away, and/or attracts the wrong audience, then even the most beautiful cover is not doing its job properly.
Thus the main fault I can give the
Twilight covers is that they don't clearly say YA, not that that seems to hurt their sales at all.
Mind you, the requirement that a cover sells the content does make the competitions like the linked Kobo one problematic, since most voters have probably
not read all contestants and so can't judge whether the cover is doing its job properly.