Quote - Seeing them with non-Poser eyes is difficult, but I'd say they're
at least as good as the usual Harlequin cover.  The second one
does an especially good job of conveying a story.

 

Are you referring to the bookcovers which feature Fabio with wind-swept hair?  Uh.....do Harlequin books have Fabio on the cover......?  Not exactly my taste in literature -- so I can't call up a mental image to compare.

I agree that the second cover conveys a story.  She's naked, obscured in shadow, and there are chains hanging in the background.  So......it's likely that the text of the story itself will incline in a certain direction -- assuming that one can judge a book by its cover.    In that case -- at least you have some idea about what you are buying before you buy it.

Quote - What's wrong with that? Maybe they wanted simple not extreme? The cover looks ok to me.

Oh......nothing's "wrong" with it........depending upon what you mean by "wrong".  It's perfectly OK to render a basic, un-postworked image in Poser: and then use it as a cover for an ebook.  Insofar as I know, the current US Congress hasn't passed a law against such a practice.

I believe that the suggestion here is that a slightly more professional cover art job would probably help to increase the sales of the ebooks.

Sure, it's possible to produce Poser images which match or exceed a lot of the book cover art that you commonly see.  It's done all of the time in the galleries here -- but such results typically involve massive amounts of 2D post-working.  Which is anathema to some -- but that's another issue (which has already been discussed ad nauseum).

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