Book Blogger Hop No. 59: Book Cover Images in Blog Posts

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What to Do

1.) Post on your blog answering this week's

question:

Do you always put a book cover

in your posts when you are 

mentioning books, or just text?

(submitted by Elizabeth @ Silver's Reviews)

2.)  Enter the link to your post in the

Linky list on Billy's blog.

3.)  Visit other blogs on the list and

comment on their posts. 

4.)  Be sure to find out next week's

question when you visit

Ramblings of a Coffee-Addicted Writer!

My Answer

Since I'm a very visual person (a look around my blog should provide conclusive evidence of that, lol), I never publish a post without some kind of image in it, even when I am not directly mentioning books. If the post is specifically about a book or books, I will definitely include a book cover or covers of the book(s) I'm discussing.

A case in point is last week's post, in which I answered the question, "Name an author or authors most of whose books you've read, and would recommend to others." Some people might answer such a question by just posting a list of these favorite authors, and the titles of the books they've read by these authors. Not me. I need to include images of these titles, and that's just what I did in last week's post. In fact, I included photos of my favorite authors, along with the book covers of the books by them that I've read. 

Of course, I always post book covers in book reviews. It's unthinkable to me to publish a book review, and not include a picture of the book cover.  How will people be able to identify the book I'm referring to? Besides, I don't think I've ever heard of any book blogger not including a book cover in a book review. 

Blog tour posts must also include a book cover of the book being promoted. That's only logical.  The book cover is, after all, part of the promotion, too.

In addition to all of the above, I also happen to be a lover of beautiful, stunning, and sometimes "out there" covers. In fact (if you'll pardon the shameless plugging, lol) I feature such striking book covers on my blog every Saturday, in a meme titled "Shelf Candy Saturday". As part of this meme, I not only display a gorgeous book cover, but also analyze it, explaining exactly why I love it. I really enjoy preparing these posts, which also include information about the cover artist, although not always. Sometimes, I am unable to locate any such information, no matter how hard I look for it.

Here's an example of a beautiful cover:

Beautiful Redemption, by

Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. 

I strongly feel that a great-looking book cover is the main thing that sells a book. Of course, the book also has to be of interest to the potential reader/buyer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction. However, if the cover is not attractive, the reader will just not bother to pick up the book in order to find  out more. We are all visual creatures to some degree, some of us more so than others. I would put myself in the latter group.

Going back to blog posts, I think these are much more interesting, too, when they include images, and especially so when they are discussing books. If I were to be given the choice between reading a post with no images, and the very same post, with images, you know I would pick the second one!

In short, a blog without images (especially of books!) included in its posts would strike me as incredibly boring, and I would really not be motivated to read any of the posts published by its creator and author.        



What are your thoughts on

the opinions I've expressed here?

Please leave a comment,

and I'll go check out your post!