kitsune_boy389
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Do authors get to choose what their covers for their books look like?
Covers do sell books and that's a fact, despite the "can't judge a book by its cover" thang.
Even on shelves, at least in the shops round here, they put some books face out, if they're trying to promote them .
Some off-the-wall suggestions publishers might consider in future:
Books 5 inches thick, giving them a spine the size of the average cover.
A retail tax on books by all new authors, making their novels twice the price of the latest blockbusters. That would have the effect of clearing 90% of the cruft from the shelves, leaving more room for the Kings and Rowlings of this world.
Coat the cover and back of the book with a special paper-eating chemical, so the titles on either side crumble to dust within a week. Naturally, books with polymer pages would be immune.
There has to come a point where they use up less space on the shelf by putting the books face-out. And so get more different books on their shelves in total. Meh.
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