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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
One of my favorite things about ebooks is the way that it enables midlist authors from the past to bring their books back into print. But these books tend to have awful new covers, while odds are that the original book had a beautiful (or beautifully lurid) painted cover. That was what sold these midlist books.
Those are almost always changed by me.
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I agree, and there are a lot NOT back in print, maybe never will be. I do my own OCR on stuff from Internet Archive, for instance. Many have lovely old covers. And if there are several good covers, I'll add an "Alt Covers" file into the book to hold them. Even stories from magazines may have been in several magazines! And magazine serials automatically have several covers.
I love to see the old, often lurid, covers on the PC as I make and proof a book, but hardly notice them on a Kobo or Kindle with the ugly muddy grey display.