Thread: What do you think of this working cover?
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Old 06-15-2023, 02:11 PM   #96
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Originally Posted by j.p.s View Post
Whether amazon should be aloowed to get away with forcing thumbnails on list view is for another topic, but do you admit that in light of the amazon policy of all covers all the time that how a cover looks on eink does matter?
Well, @j.p.s. when you say "does it matter," do you mean, "does it matter AT ALL?" Sure, possibly. Most people don't see the thumbnails until after they've already bought the book, so...meh. IF people were downloading samples, left-right-and center, more than just skimming the LITB, that might matter more.

But hell, I have a crap-ton of books on my Kindle eInk (10th Gen PPW) right now and very few of them are real GRABBERS in eInk. They are (rightly) designed to look awesome on the website, in full living (ha) color. As I said--they have one job. Not to make the author happy, not to tell the story or illustrate a scene from the book, or anything else--just to get folks to click.

So, you could argue, and possibly you are, that IF a reader downloads 25 free samples to his eINK, having a great-on-eInk cover might matter, because it might make him click on that one, in his library, before others and then he might then buy it, over others. So, I'll grant that one to you.

BUT, long before he got to that--having the sample on his device, after all--he had to see the cover somewhere else, to click, and most likely, it was on the Amazon website in color. I see thumbs all the time, in the last section, the "rate this book" section and they pop up the next book in sequence or all that--and I only glance quickly at the thumbs. I know full well that they are not designed for eInks, so...IDK. Just not something to which I give a ton of thought, really, all things considered.

And when the thumbs are uber-tiny, as they tend to be in the Library...hell, it almost doesn't matter if it's color or B&W--you can't see them!

But...do they matter in eInk? To some extent, I'm sure that they do. If I had a wining cover, in color, and it wasn't that GREAT in eInk, would I change it, for that reason? No, probably not. Not if it was killer in color.


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