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Old 02-22-2014, 08:21 PM   #1
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What Draws You To A Book?
Just wondering... as a reader what draws you to a book?
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Old 02-22-2014, 10:27 PM   #2
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Just wondering as a reader what draws you to a book?
A pen.
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Old 02-22-2014, 10:52 PM   #3
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1) Cover/Ad Art
2) Synopsis, NOT those absurd Rave blurbs
3) Sampling a chapter

1 gets me to pick it up/click 'more' (details)
2 helps me decide if this is the kind of story I am interested in
3 decide if the Authors writing style meets my reading style standards
4 Price
If it passes the first 3, there is a good chance for a sale unless #4 is overblown for the genere
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Old 02-23-2014, 12:07 AM   #4
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Ok those all make sense
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Old 02-23-2014, 08:28 AM   #5
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The cover and title certainly at first and then the synopsis. The price also plays a part. I mean if it's $2.99 and only a dozen pages it's going to have to really sell itself to me. If on the other hand it's 600+ pages and only $2.99 then it's got a far better chance of catching my interest. Of course reviews by previous purchaser's (if there are any) can also play a part. If they are all bad reviews I'm less likely to buy no matter what the other signs above tell me.
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Old 02-23-2014, 09:24 AM   #6
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If it's a new author to me, then someone else's enthusiasm is the biggest factor. This can be a bit of buzz on here or on twitter or whatever, or it can be a personal recommendation from a friend, or an award nomination, or it can even be blatant promotion by the publisher, as long as I know that's what it is and feel I can gauge how genuine it is. After all, someone at the publisher liked the book a lot somewhere along the line.

I don't think there's anything a random single book can do on its own to draw me in. I don't take anything the book's amazon page says at face value, and I have way too much to read to take a flyer on an unknown quantity. Maybe if I found the concept particularly intriguing I might look at the sample.
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Old 02-23-2014, 12:06 PM   #7
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Just wondering... as a reader what draws you to a book?
- A good synopsis or blurb of the story on the back.
- Reviews of users on websites such as Amazon's. (NOT by other authors; no-one is going to put a bad quote in the book!)
- The cover image, to some extent.
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Title / Cover are part of it (that's what you see when randomly browsing books), main selling point are synopsis, and author name. I'm more prone to buying a book from an author I've read and liked.
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Old 02-26-2014, 02:01 AM   #9
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1. Cover
2. Title
3. Price
4. synopsis
5. Rating

In that order...it has to have a cover that catches my eye first. There are just too many books to go through. Then I check out the name and price.

If I like the first 3 then I'll click on the book to read the synopsis and If it has decent ratings I'll buy it.
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  1. Author who's other works I'm familiar with
  2. Synopsis of a book
  3. Initial idea sounds intriguing
  4. Cover

In that order.

Although, if the cover is bad, I tend to hate it immediately.
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Interesting subject, the writing is half decent
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Old 02-26-2014, 05:13 AM   #12
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Recommendations by friends and bloggers whose taste is similar to mine.

After that, a good cover and engaging blurb can pull the book higher on my TBR.
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Old 02-26-2014, 06:03 AM   #13
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- A good synopsis or blurb of the story on the back.
This is the most important one for me.
Positive reviews by other MR members is second.
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Old 02-26-2014, 07:35 PM   #14
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This is the most important one for me.
Positive reviews by other MR members is second.
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Its the synopsis for me, too, but not necessarily reviews. I don't read them much because I find I allow myself to be distracted by them. So, if the synopsis looks like it might be something I'll enjoy, I read it. If the writing is less than enthralling, I don't finish.

Sometimes I want to read something but cant get into it. If there's nothing inherently "bad" about it, I'll listen in audiobook form. I was like that with The God of Small Things. I just loved the audiobook and have listened twice now, but still, for some reason, find myself unable to read it. It continues to languish in my bookshelf.
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I never read reviews, because some people are thoughtless enough to put major spoilers into them. I only check out the star ratings at Amazon and/or Goodreads, and if there are a lot of reviews and the average is 4+, then I assume it's a good book.

It still might not be to my taste, but if a book averages 4.21 stars over 378 reviews, then it can't be all bad.
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