[ SECRET POST #6449 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6449 ⌋

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[Ciconia: When They Cry]



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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Idk to me this does a very neat, quick job of telling me what kind of book it is - it's one where the author is a Brand who can put out loads and loads of books with a consistent style and level of quality. The level of quality might not be high but you know what you're getting into. And I respect that kind of output, and if you vibe with the author you can get a lot of consistent books out of it.

[(Anonymous)]

But what if you've never read a single book from this author and you know nothing about them? Would you buy that book? I wouldn't.

[(Anonymous)]

If their vibe / style was something that seemed interesting to me, absolutely I would read that book. Maybe try and get one from the library first before buying or something but I do that regardless.

[(Anonymous)]

The large publishers only switch over to that style of cover when the author has become enough of a Name that they assume "people who recognize the author" is a large enough customer base that they don't care about people who don't. With big authors you can actually time when they got to that point, if you have enough first printings through their career.

(if someone is doing that on selfpub/smallpub books, well, they probably can't be helped.)

da

[(Anonymous)]

I would read the blurb on the inside leaf and/or the first page and if it grabbed me, yeah I would read it. I'm not gonna just skip a book because it has an author photo. That is as random to me as skipping because the cover is yellow.

Re: da

[(Anonymous)]

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure OP is talking about books that don't have a blub at all. I don't think it's the author photo OP objects to, but the prioritizing of the author's photo over actually giving potential readers any information about the book. Which I agree with OP about, presuming that's what they meant. I don't really care about the author photo one way or the other, but giving me zero information about the book definitely makes me less likely to give it a chance.