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As an independent developer or author, every bit of time or money put into superficial things like a book cover is time or money that isn’t used for the content
by _mlbt 2y ago
As an independent developer or author, every bit of time or money put into superficial things like a book cover is time or money that isn’t used for the content itself.
- otde 2y agowhich begs the question: why spend any time at all including an ai image as part of the cover if it’s a negative signal for some people?
- wk_end 2y agoA comment like this makes a lot of subtle assumptions. That there's a fixed budget of time/money - exactly X hours/dollars will be allocated to the book, one way or another. That the improvement to the quality of the content as time/money is invested is something approaching linear - that if exactly X hours/dollars are going to be allocated to the book, the content will be appreciably better if, say, 0.9X is allocated to the content vs, say, 0.8X. That time and money is fungible: that all time/money that could be invested in the content could be invested in superficial things, and the other way around.
- FrustratedMonky 2y ago"That there's a fixed budget of time/money" As independent developer. Yes, time is fixed. There is only 24 hours in a day.
- nkrisc 2y agoA pleasant color and a pleasing font good a long way. You can spend very little time and no money.
- fatbird 2y agoYou have direct evidence above that the book cover is not a superficial thing. If you don't take this into account, then you're not a serious author.