The fantastic folks over at The Book Smugglers just posted the results of their cover survey. The results are interesting–to sum up, people do judge books by their covers, although they understand how little an author has to do with the cover art.

My thoughts? I’m much more likely to buy something I’ve never heard of if it has an interesting cover, but I’ll buy a book I’ve been wanting to read anyway despite the cover art.

If I’ve never heard of it and the cover art is nothing but boring cliches? A great blurb on the back won’t save it, because I won’t bother to pick it up.