I have looked at a few self-published books and a variety of traditionally published books and compared them.
How do the covers look? Feel? How is the back designed? What is the font and paragraph structure? How do you tell the difference between books?
According to parapublishing.com, potential buyers spend eight seconds looking at the front cover and fifteen seconds looking at the back cover of a book. That gives twenty-three seconds to convince someone to buy your book.
What draws you in? What makes you put a book back on the shelf?
What draws you in? What makes you put a book back on the shelf?
Later, I got to talk about books with friends and I mentioned goodreads.com, which they hadn't heard of so I figured I'd show you the link. If you love to read, love to write, love to talk about books or see what other people are reading, check it out.
Right now I am reading:
The Butterfly Mosque by G. Willow Wilson
Lord of the Flies (to the kids) by William Golding
Evolving in Monkey Town by Rachel Held Evans
Runner's World magazine
What are you reading?
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I read multiple books at once. Definite draws for me are: favorite authors, (I've got about a dozen) pretty cover-art, (I'm a sucker for a pretty picture) or recommendations from friends.
Right now I am reading:
God's Story, Your Story - by Max Lucado
One Bite at a Time - by Tsh Oxenreider
Twice Upon a Marigold (recommended & borrowed from DD's collection... I think ALL your kiddies might enjoy it as well!) by Jean Ferris
and the kids & I are alternating stories from Christmas Stories from the Heart by Alice Gray, and Christmas Hearts by Tim Roehl.
I'm excited to see you're reading "Evolving in Monkey town" its on my list of books to read plus I follow her blog, she's interesting.
I'm reading:
The King Jesus Gospel by Scot McKnight
The Christian World: A global history by Martin Marty
The Divine Commodity by Skye Jethani
Ahhh...Books! Yours truly is a bibliophile, I must admit!
Currently:
Conflict Revolution, by Kenneth Cloke
Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise, by Martha Brill Olcott
Creation in Christ: Unspoken Sermons, by George MacDonald
The Trinitarian Faith, by T.F. Torrance
We're hoping to do some reading together as a family over the holidays. Since everyone is so scattered now, we don't get to do this very often. But the ones we're currently working through when we're together are the Horatio Hornblower books.
Dan, I like the authors you're reading!
Ron W.
dave barry turns 50, a WWII book, now that the house has calmed down :):):) I will pick up a few
dad
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