I confess! This post had nothing to do with ducks. It's actually about book covers. But I had no generic user pic of books that fit the topic, and I always liked this picture I took of some ducks by a willow tree, so there you go. The only place the two things come together is in the subject line.

Now let's talk covers. You might think that digital publishing makes covers less important, and that might be true, but it doesn't make them not important. A book needs a cover even if it's an ebook. But an ebook does have different requirements, in that it has less room to have an impact. I've been thinking about this lately, because I plan to put some of my novels on the Kindle platform, and thus I need to get covers for them.

Ergo, today's post is actually a poll, to sample how folks feel about book covers in general and ebook covers in particular. Anyone with an LJ account can answer; if you don't have an account, feel free to comment anyway! Or do both! Just like a lot of ebooks, it's free.