[Swordmaker]

Calling these self-published books "literature" is an extreme stretch. . . LOL!

Proof that editors, graphic artists, Art Directors, people with discrimination, good taste, and common sense, and publishers are crucial in the book publishing business?

[MeshugeMikey]

It would be difficult for me make a cover as bad as any of those displayed without putting an extra amount of time and energy into the project.

perhaps there’s a “twenty dollah a book.”....”cover art” mill......churning these out somewhere In China or Bangladesh

[cripplecreek]

I might read “Unholy Cows”

[ansel12]

I have about 1400 Kindle books, all non-fiction except for a half dozen or so.

I’m not a fan of the format, and many of the books offered, but maybe if I ever buy a Kindle, I will get some use out of them.

[Beowulf9]

Well, THIS one is good, if anyone's into ghosts;)

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

If such actually existed then they would be.

Have you looked at some of the covers they put on printed books?

[PAR35]

I like the ‘Claws’ cover. I would expect something along the lines of Cujo, but with a fluffy cat instead of the dog.

Unholy Cow looks like it might have promise

[papertyger]

Proof that editors, graphic artists, Art Directors, people with discrimination, good taste, and common sense, and publishers are crucial in the book publishing business?

None of these fields are exclusive to big publishing.

[rabidralph]

What, say you?

[LostInBayport]

Once, I walked into a liberal bookstore in a college town. Looking at those covers was not unlike looking at the books on display in there (and some of the people working at the store).

[Bob]

As horrific as these covers are, the descriptions that go with them are even worse.

[Defiant]

Some of them aren’t so much bad covers as really bad titles. I like the phallic “Blob” though. His smile is alluring.

[Mygirlsmom]

The Story of Two Sister by Sachin Saparia - "This is a story of two sister who faces so much difficultis from their child hood."

To quote Steve Martin: "Some people have a way with words. Others......have not way?"

[Jeff Chandler]

[Larry Lucido]

I, for one, welcome our new overlords.

Kind of.

[Salgak]

Ladies and Gentlemen: I present the cover of the book that is NOT to be criticized: the author comes after you like a rabid bat:

[uglybiker]

[firebrand]

Thanks for these. Art directors struggle to portray something suggestive of the book without being too explicit. It really is an art to pick the right art.

The blurbs are hilarious. They somehow tell you more than you want to know at the same time that they exaggerate and embellish and distort what’s actually in the book.

There was an editor I used to know who insisted on writing her own blurbs for her books and refused to entrust them to the promotion department. She did mysteries, and managed to make you want desperately to read the book without revealing the tiniest fact about the plot. She was a genius at that. I never read jacket copy before the book itself. I can’t stand to know things before the author intended me to.

[kanawa]