Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 18:53:24 -0400 From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: re: The eyes, they bleed! The brain, it hurts! Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Tamar Lindsay wrote: > Michael Walsh <mjw at press.jhu.edu> > <snip> >> Face it ... it's just bad art. >> That said, Baen books sell ... they know their market. & this will >> probably sell fairly well. > > Or, if people pick it up and look inside, it may sell in spite of > the cover. There's a reason the dollar stores sell those flimsy > cloth covers for paperback books. I bought certain authors for <snip> Heh. Reminds me of the textbook covers from when I was in high school, back when the world was very young: Lion Taming Made Easy, by Claude Balls; Mountain Climbing Made Easy, by Hugo First.... mark -- Let us say negotiation is not his forte. Ballmer is no more designed for the art of persuasion than the Abrams tank is for delivering meals on wheels. - "Late Scores: Germany 1, M$ 0", John Naughton, The Observer (UK)