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Judged By Its Cover

By Scott Esposito on July 3, 2009 | Comments (2) | Permalink

Seth Godin writes:

Is the purpose of the cover to sell books, to accurately describe what's in the book, or to tee up the reader so the book has maximum impact?

Which is it? The answer is interesting.

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