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dreamingfusedshadow t1_j8bj7yc wrote

I believe the cover to be one of the most important things about a book.

This is how I see it: Imagen yourself going to a bookstore. You don’t know what book you’re looking for; you just want to buy a book. You will be attracted by those with the most appealing covers. You see a cover you like, you take the book, see what it’s all about, and if you find it interesting, you buy it.

A nice cover doesn’t guarantee great content, but I think that it’s the main thing (or one of them) that draws people’s attention.

I had heard of Stephen King before reading his books or watching any of the movies inspired by them, but I was never really interested in his work, until I found myself in a store and on a shelf there was The Outsider. I was so captivated by that cover that I started to look it up online and finally decided to get it. If it wasn’t for that cover, I probably wouldn’t have read King today.

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