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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
in bookstores, it's rarely the books that have covers facing out that I'm interested in.
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That's been my experience, too, although I see signs of that changing with online bookstores (whether ebook or not). The B&M stores only seem to display the covers of maybe 10% of their books-if that. The online stores seem to display a cover for most of their books. (Now if they'd only beef up their 'look inside' capability to match the B&M.)
For me, it's more often the title & author that 'grabs' me enough that I pick it up-then I look at the cover. (The cover can 'veto' a book, for me, but doesn't generally cause an impulse buy.) OTOH, I can't say the cover is unimportant-if I thought it was unimportant I wouldn't waste time adding cover images to those of my ebooks which don't come with them. (All too many, unfortunately.)
So I have a hard time deciding about the value of covers. I like to think that the cover image plays no part in my buying decision-but if that's the case then why is it important to me? Strange-today must be one of those days when I'm a little bit odd.