will
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Post by will on May 7, 2011 12:24:21 GMT -6
One thing that really bugs me is book blurbs on the back of limited edition books. I know blurbs help sell, but that is in stores where people are browsing mass market books and you need a push. I just got a really nice limited edition, 500 copies, with great warp around cover art. You could hardly see the art on the back due to being cover with little praises for the book. The book was mail order only, you don't need to convince buyers. I really don't understand it, the publisher must have paid a nice penny for the great wrap-around art why mess it up? If they are pumped because the book is well reviewed, put the reviews up on the publisher site, or a page in the front or back of the book with the wirte-ups!
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Post by jackstaynes on May 24, 2011 13:05:20 GMT -6
I'm with you on this one Will. Too many books out there with praise for the book all over it. I never tend to read blurbs, cause I tend to like to be surprised and more often than not it works out great. Saying that I also don't need to know that X say's Y is the next Stephen King. Just give me an Author, a Title and some great looking cover art (preferably with some kind of nipple slip) and I'm a happy man.
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Post by sweeper4football on May 24, 2011 13:16:12 GMT -6
I like blurbs (sorry lads!) but I rather have them on the inside of a dustjacket rather than spoil artwork etc...
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Post by sdkdmd on May 24, 2011 19:27:26 GMT -6
I NEVER READ THEM
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Post by mistercrowley on Jul 18, 2011 14:57:49 GMT -6
I can't trust the blurb anymore. They are too misleading and often I think it's just one author doing another author a favor. I've read two books by Andy Deane (The Sticks and All the Darkness in the World) based on blurbs and recommendations from others and was extrememely disappointed. The man simply can't write a decent story without nine million horrible metaphors and characters that are not even two dimensional. Yet I've heard his work praised repeatedly. I don't get it. Ill trust my instincts from now on instead of listening to others.
Jim
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