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Originally Posted by Hitch
YES and there it is. You simply start to avoid those "DIY covers." Because of that same thought process ("well, if s/he couldn't afford $25, even, for a cover designer, why should I think that s/he paid for a proofreader or editor?").
I even know better--I mean, I've seen s**t covers on really good books--and yet, I still tend to steer clear of them as if it's a red flare. {shrug}. I have one right now. An actually GOOD little cop-procedural-mystery, but the cover is meh. And she used one of our designers, too, but she had a design in mind, a VERY specific design--right out of the '70's--and couldn't let go. (sigh).
It's simply a fact--the entire package has to present commercially and professionally, unless (like Andy Weir) you happen to have developed a fanbase already on your blog, and when I say fanbase, I mean in the thousands, not the hundreds. If you do that, you can be a bit sloppy around your first cover, but even then...why give birth to your child and then cut off one of its legs, while wishing it to be successful? Nuts.
There are days...
Hitch
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But like Andy Weir, don't embed fonts that make the eBook difficult to read. For whatever reason, Open Sans, Open Serif, and Open Mono were used in the eBook. They are horrible fonts on eInk. Just about unreadable.
Best not to embed any fonts.