Look at the following cover. Imagine that you have only the cover and the information it provides (including images, title and author name) to decide whether to buy this (or any) book.
Would you buy this book having looked only at its cover? If so, what on this cover sold you? If not, what on this cover turned you off?
If you have, in fact, bought and/or read this book, tell us how well our verdicts guided us. Did the cover lead us rightly into great fiction? Or did the cover wrongly steer us toward a bad story or away from a great one?
Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Posts: 291 Location: Waco, Texas
Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 6:51 pm
This one does interest me, but I had to click on the image and go to amazon for a better look. I do like hard SF, and what I at first took to be a self-contained world on a starship is apparently an underground city on Venus, the first world colonized off-Earth.
Unfortunately, it seems they are only offering it for the Kindle, so until that changes I'll have to pass on this one.
Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Posts: 291 Location: Waco, Texas
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 7:37 pm
The majority of mainstream books I've seen listed for the Kindle average $9.99. This one by Cantrell, along with several others recommended since I clicked on that, seem to be ones not offered by a traditional publisher at this time. I think it may be the equivalent of a printed book from a "vanity" press.
That's a good point. It may even be Amazon's vanity press, which would explain why they have a hand in promoting these books. All my "Buy the Cover" books come from the Amazon bestseller list _________________ Violet "Violanthe" Kane
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