Tim Lewis, ALLi Author Member and Twitter chat host
On the ALLi Twitter chat (#indieAuthorChat) this week we asked questions about How important is a Cover for a Book?
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Mmm interesting – I have just received lovely cover design from my designer for up-coming book and she has so cleverly worked to make the current style (which I don’t like much, especially the typescript) into something which really suits and expresses the book. I’d go with those n the chat who said that although they themselves don’t get seduced first by the cover, when book-buying, they understand many readers do, and agreed with the “covers attract first” theory. We live in a very visual society. Covers are really important, and make a book stand out in a crowd.
This seems to me to be a very ‘Physical’ book based set of answers.
The comment “the cover is so cheesy I didn’t want to be seen reading it” applies to a physical book but nobody can see what you are reading with an e-book!
Since I sell twenty to thirty e-books to each paperback … I need an image that says “buy me” at a size of between 130 x 220 pixels and 200 x 300 as they appear on the Amazon page. This means the cover image is important but many of the traditional features like reviewer quotes are reduced to clutter.
In order to sell e-books it is very much
1 Title
2 Cover
3 Blurb
4 Content