Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Hello!

I would love to change the cover for my debut novel Bound by Fury to make sure we're including the sprayed edges in the photo.

Here are the edelweiss and official S&S pages for reference.

https://www.edelweiss.plus/#keywordSe...
https://www.simonandschuster.com/book...

For some reason, my pub doesn't have the sprayed edge version of the photo on the official page, but it is available to see and download on edelweiss.

Thank you!

We use flat covers here unless a flat image isn't available.

So every single photo including sprayed edges is because there wasn’t a flat image available? I know of several off of the top of my head where that can’t possibly be the case. Should I contact someone else more directly to discuss this? Or should I have my publisher reach out?

Some images have been added by bot from Amazon, when a request is submitted with an acceptable source librarians can update them to the preferred flat front cover image.
Sites like Amazon are for sales so promotional images can be uploaded by publisher's or authors, Goodreads is a database for use by readers and follows standards which they seem best - sometimes database standards are based on the need for conformity as much as anything else.