So while we all wish we had a better means for choosing books than just the cover, for better or worse, that cover art is where many book sales start. Frankly, I think the cover art is one of the most appealing things about a book store. One of the reasons I painstakingly created this post with all the book covers was to recreate the feel of browsing in a bookstore. I wanted to display all that great art designed solely to get us to buy the book. Yet, I always feel slightly guilty when I buy a book based on the cover. I am always worried that I have just been suckered. How many times have you bought a bad book because of the cover and a great two paragraph description? I know I have, and yet I have to confess, that is how I found one of my very favorite scifi series — Dan Simmons’ Hyperion Cantos. The picture of the mysterious shrike caught my attention, and then I remembered a friend had recommended it to me. The description did the rest.
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The funny thing is, you would think a Kindle would undermine book covers, because before the Kindle Fire, an e-book was basically a book without a cover. Yet, every internet article on e-books will tell you quality book covers still make a huge difference in sales. It is really hard for us to escape the visual cues of a good cover, which brings me back to the point of this post. In this post, I have taken one book from every author on the KU list whose books have been published for the Kindle, and linked it to their Amazon Kindle Page. Consider it an attempt to give you the best of both worlds. Here you can pick a book by its cover and not worry that you are getting junk with good art. Happy hunting.
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