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Originally Posted by JSWolf
There are more people then you think who will see a cover, read the book and notice the error(s) on the cover. Dresden Files is a good example of covers that really do need to be replaced with corrected covers.
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Jon:
Yes, but by the time that a reader kvetches, s/he will have already bought the book and cares ENOUGH to give a hoot about whether the horse is brown, sorrel, bay or chestnut or even Palomino. At that point, you grabbed them, you have (at least) the $$ From their first purchase, and presumably, they'll continue to buy.
Someone who a) didn't buy the book or b) didn't like it, isn't going to give two hoots about the color of the horse's mane.
Wholly unrelated mini-rant or laugh about people online who posted as "experts" in What Henry Cavill was riding, in The Witcher.....
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As a horse person my entire life, owning, riding, breeding and all that, I have to say, I found a crapton of Reddits and other posts/threads, etc. ALL OVER THE NET about "wha6t kind of horse is Roach," the [oriignal] chestnut that Henry Cavill was riding. Henry Cavill, who is what, 6'2" or so?
And there were all these "expert" answers, saying ARAB or MORAB [Morgan-Arab cross]. I was DYING. On an ARAB or a Morab, which are barely larger than pony-sized? Man, some folks really need babysitters before they post. Is it possible, remotely, that one Morgan/Arab cross, ONE, in the entire world, is tall enough to comfortably carry Cavill [and have his withers, up against Cavill's head, be the "right" size?} Sure. But generally speaking, they are, serious bidness, 8" shorter at the withers than they ought to be, to carry someone his size and weight.
If they liked the book enough to give a damn, they are unlikely to stop buying the series over the color of the horse, or the eye-color of the heroine, etc. Sure, would it be a perfect world, in which every single author could afford hand-drawn artwork for their books? YES, but I know many that can't even afford a $25 "commercial" cover from some fly-by-night on Fiverr.
AND, I'm sure that if said author sells enough books and the sales warrant it, they'll do just that--revise the covers. I don't remember the early Dresden Covers, TBH. When I first met Harry, he was one lousy book. So...don't remember. And again--I stopped reading those, but not about the COVERS.
Hitch