Survey: Covers and Buyability

[erastes]

Ruth Sims has a series of unofficial survey questions for readers of m/m romance .

Please reply personally to Ruth at RSNewsletter@insightbb.com

1) If m/m romances were readily available and easy to find in stores such as Barnes & Noble would you buy them?

2) Is the author's perceived gender a consideration? Would you buy a m/m romance authored by a man?

3) Women tend to read in public a lot--doctor's offices, etc. The following Amazon titles represent different types of covers. Which one would you be more likely to buy in a store? The titles below were chosen only for their covers as examples, with no consideration given to the author or story. Please just rank them 1 (would buy) 9 for bookstore "buyability". We're not collecting names or information, so any comments you care to make are welcome. The titles were chose at random from the Amazon Top 100 lists – gay fiction, and gay romance.


The Tin Star (Langley)



Racing the Moon (Tortuga)


Walking Wounded (Rowan)


Soul Mates: Bound by Blood (Lane)


Natural Disaster (Owen)


The Price of Temptation (Pearson)


Standish (Erastes)


When You Don't See Me (Beck)


The Back Passage (Lear)


To Love a Cowboy (Aile)

Comments

[clarediva.livejournal.com]

I replied to this already, it's v interesting. And I had to say how contradictory The Back Passage was - such a fun book, but such a provocative cover!!! *lmao*. I had to hide it in a cupboard in case my teenage boys got hold of it.
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