I never buy a book because of the blurbs and rarely even pay any attention to them. In fact, while I can understand their function from a marketing standpoint, I actually have a very strong disliking to seeing blurbs on book covers. Doesn't bother me a bit if they're in the description of an online listing, but I can't stand them on a co…
I never buy a book because of the blurbs and rarely even pay any attention to them. In fact, while I can understand their function from a marketing standpoint, I actually have a very strong disliking to seeing blurbs on book covers. Doesn't bother me a bit if they're in the description of an online listing, but I can't stand them on a cover as I find them to be distracting and kinda ugly (at least if they're on the front cover; sorry, but I like to see the cover art unblemished by blurbs). I'm interested in the cover art, the title, the author, and the synopsis and I've seen too many books that filled the back cover with just their bio and so many blurbs that they didn't even have the synopsis. That's an automatic hard-pass for me unless it's an author I already know I like. Otherwise, if I can't read what your book is about then I'm not buying it no matter what some other author says about it. Another reason I don't like blurbs is that I, frankly, don't trust them. I find myself questioning how genuine they really are and that taints my view of the book. So, yeah, as a reader I'd be happy to see books without blurbs.
I never buy a book because of the blurbs and rarely even pay any attention to them. In fact, while I can understand their function from a marketing standpoint, I actually have a very strong disliking to seeing blurbs on book covers. Doesn't bother me a bit if they're in the description of an online listing, but I can't stand them on a cover as I find them to be distracting and kinda ugly (at least if they're on the front cover; sorry, but I like to see the cover art unblemished by blurbs). I'm interested in the cover art, the title, the author, and the synopsis and I've seen too many books that filled the back cover with just their bio and so many blurbs that they didn't even have the synopsis. That's an automatic hard-pass for me unless it's an author I already know I like. Otherwise, if I can't read what your book is about then I'm not buying it no matter what some other author says about it. Another reason I don't like blurbs is that I, frankly, don't trust them. I find myself questioning how genuine they really are and that taints my view of the book. So, yeah, as a reader I'd be happy to see books without blurbs.