"New York Times best-selling author"

[DuckieTigger]

Originally Posted by DrNefario

I always used to like to get the non-movie version of the cover if I could. Covers with the actors on are just not right.

I am not a fan of movie tie in versions, but will still chose them if they are cheaper that way. Most of the time I don't see the cover anyway, don't have to look at it every time I turn my book on. And sometimes the thumbnail view of the cover is different from the large version. Greatly annoys me, and reminds me again and again why I don't have cover view enabled on my reader. I still try sometimes, and quickly go back to text only view soon as I came across a mismatched thumbnail / full size cover.

[Quexos]

Originally Posted by DrNefario

I always used to like to get the non-movie version of the cover if I could. Covers with the actors on are just not right.

Agreed it's like the author is telling you that his book only shines through commercial exploitation and a movie along with it, and the "artistic" part is just secondary.

[Luffy]

Originally Posted by DrNefario

I always used to like to get the non-movie version of the cover if I could. Covers with the actors on are just not right.

Such a small detail should not bother you. Why does it though?

[Luffy]

Originally Posted by Quexos

Agreed it's like the author is telling you that his book only shines through commercial exploitation and a movie along with it, and the "artistic" part is just secondary.

You may be right.

[DrNefario]

Originally Posted by Luffy

Such a small detail should not bother you. Why does it though?

You can't pretend you were into it before it was cool if you have the movie tie-in edition.

[Yapyap]

Originally Posted by DrNefario

You can't pretend you were into it before it was cool if you have the movie tie-in edition.

Excellent reason.

For me movie tie-in covers usually don't work unless I've actually seen the movie before reading the book (which happens rarely). Otherwise seeing the actors chosen just messes with my own interpretation or mental image of what the characters look like.

[Barty]

Originally Posted by DuckieTigger

I am more interested in "now a major motion picture" - more meaningful to me. Someone thought it was a good enough book to risk a lot of money adopting it to a movie. If it turns out a successful movie, the book can't be that bad. Usually the books are better than the movie - not always.

Well the problem with this is if the movie is bad, it doesn't entice me to read the book. If the movie is good, I feel I already got my money's worth

[DuckieTigger]

Originally Posted by Barty

Well the problem with this is if the movie is bad, it doesn't entice me to read the book. If the movie is good, I feel I already got my money's worth

It depends on how you consume content. I spend a lot more time reading than watching movies. When I see a trailer for a movie - especially when the movie is not out yet - and the trailer promises to be interesting (to me), I will go check out on the book it is based on. Used to be that we buy more movies than books, now the opposite is true. (we as in my family, not you and me or a general we)

For me personally the simple label of "this book now has a movie" is already more interesting to check out than a book that doesn't. If ontop of that the movie looks promising, it is an easy decision to get the book without researching the book in more detail. We made it our rule to read the book first before watching the movie - especially if we already bought the book.

Sometimes the movie loses out and doesn't get bought, even when it initially was planned to watch in movie theater or planned to buy at dvd release. Like you said, but other way around - if the book was good, I already got my money's worth.

[covingtoncat73]

Originally Posted by DrNefario

You can't pretend you were into it before it was cool if you have the movie tie-in edition.

LOL! Well, that could be true for some. However, I actually really appreciate nice cover art. There is also the nostalgia factor. For books I read as a child, I like to see the cover I had as a child. This is especially true if the dramatization was awful (like the straight-up, to me, sacrilegious miniseries of Wizard of Earthsea/Tombs of Atuan) but I still wouldn't want a movie-picture cover of The Hobbit or Lord of The Rings, though I enjoyed those movies. I know what the actors look like. I want the bonus of art.

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by Luffy

Such a small detail should not bother you. Why does it though?

You can't believe the small details *I* can be bothered about. I've been known to remove a cover from a bought e-book, replacing it with either a version I like better, or my own (which I often do for classics, creating them myself).

I correct indents if they are too large, remove white space between paragraphs, edit the metadata to be as correct as possible.... and so on.

Fortunately my OCD does not go so far that I must have the correct ISBN; the ISBN of any (English) version of the book is sufficient.

[Luffy]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

You can't believe the small details *I* can be bothered about. I've been known to remove a cover from a bought e-book, replacing it with either a version I like better, or my own (which I often do for classics, creating them myself).

I correct indents if they are too large, remove white space between paragraphs, edit the metadata to be as correct as possible.... and so on.

Fortunately my OCD does not go so far that I must have the correct ISBN; the ISBN of any (English) version of the book is sufficient.

Ha ha ha, sometimes when I'm browsing mobileread, it feels like I'm in a bizarro world or something, no offence. I'm merely interested in the content. I love reading books, it feels good to say it.

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by Luffy

Ha ha ha, sometimes when I'm browsing mobileread, it feels like I'm in a bizarro world or something, no offence. I'm merely interested in the content. I love reading books, it feels good to say it.

Yes, I love reading books. That is the reason why I go to great lengths to make a library that is perfect down to the smallest detail (that matters to me), so the files actually feel like a book, instead of a bunch of text.

Therefore, the cover, and even the front matter and back matter (title page, more of this author, about this author.... etc) are important to me. If I'd just wanted to read the content, I could have downloaded a pirated and OCR'd copy in 2007, when I got and quickly sold my first e-reader, before restarting again (for good) in 2011.

[shalym]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

Yes, I love reading books. That is the reason why I go to great lengths to make a library that is perfect down to the smallest detail (that matters to me), so the files actually feel like a book, instead of a bunch of text.

Therefore, the cover, and even the front matter and back matter (title page, more of this author, about this author.... etc) are important to me. If I'd just wanted to read the content, I could have downloaded a pirated and OCR'd copy in 2007, when I got and quickly sold my first e-reader, before restarting again (for good) in 2011.

Interesting...I don't care what it looks like, as long as my eyes can read it. To me, the content is the only important thing, and the reason I don't download a pirated and OCR'd copy is because I believe in paying for what I get.

Shari

[Luffy]

Originally Posted by shalym

Interesting...I don't care what it looks like, as long as my eyes can read it. To me, the content is the only important thing, and the reason I don't download a pirated and OCR'd copy is because I believe in paying for what I get.

Shari

I don't blame Katsunami for downloading books, but I don't want to openly approve because, hello, the moderators might suddenly swoop down.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by Luffy

I don't blame Katsunami for downloading books, but I don't want to openly approve because, hello, the moderators might suddenly swoop down.

Katsunami did not say he pirates books. You must have misinterpreted his post.