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Originally Posted by j.p.s
Whether it increases sales is not the only consideration. There is also whether to foist indecipherability and/or ugliness onto the hapless reader. [...]
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Sure, I think any self-respecting publisher/self-publisher should want to choose covers that work in all environments, even when that limits the choices.
BUT Hitch's advice still stands as the primary consideration. The cover is about sales, which these days mostly means click-bait, everything else is secondary. "Secondary" doesn't mean it is ignored, it just means that it only counts after the first has been satisfied. Get half-a-dozen useful primary choices and the whittle them down or adjust them to fit secondary considerations.