It’s probably not so much to judge but to get your attention to pick it up and look further. Basically marketing.

perspectives are a bitch 🫂💜

Book covers are also for protecting the pages. Not all book covers have cover art or a synopsis.

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I also found that book covers of the same genre often share the same style. So you can tell the genre by the cover.

Flipping the pages is much easier with a proper cover