Thread: What do you think of this working cover?
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Old 06-15-2023, 12:39 PM   #93
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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
to be fair, let's not kid ourselves--that doesn't matter. The cover has one job, and one job only--it's CLICK BAIT. period. End statement, end of discussion. Its job is not to tell the story; not to show an event from inside the book, or anything like that. Its only job is to be genre-appropriate so that the prospective buyer says "hmmm...that looks like it might be for me," and then get them to CLICK.

Once that happens, the cover's job is done. It has nothing else to do. Amazon's statistics internally indicate that almost NOBODY flips back in an eBook to see the cover and the books are designed to open at Chapter 1, so...I mean, if Doc Drib wants to check it on an eInk, great, but all it has to do is entice.

Hitch
And yet amazon forces it to show up all over the place, even in list view.
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