I am a visual person and love a pretty, colorful cover. That will make me pick up a book and sometimes even tempt me to buy it. However, once I've picked it up, the jacket copy had better sound interesting, because if not, it's going back on the shelf.
I tend to read mostly YA, and I'd say the majority of the covers there are doing an excellent job of saying, "Pick me, pick me! I'm beautiful and interesting and fun!" Whether the actual stories live up to that is something else, of course. There's nothing like expecting the story to match the cover, both in content and in quality, and not having it happen.
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I am a visual person and love a pretty, colorful cover. That will make me pick up a book and sometimes even tempt me to buy it. However, once I've picked it up, the jacket copy had better sound interesting, because if not, it's going back on the shelf.
I tend to read mostly YA, and I'd say the majority of the covers there are doing an excellent job of saying, "Pick me, pick me! I'm beautiful and interesting and fun!" Whether the actual stories live up to that is something else, of course. There's nothing like expecting the story to match the cover, both in content and in quality, and not having it happen.