On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 03:23 PM, Steven Brust wrote: >> Hi, what I meant was, Does the cover art/title/back cover matter for >> the >> third book of a trilogy? Will random people actually buy the book? > > Oh. Well, it seems odd to me, but I'm told that, yes, they do. A long time ago, my sister bought me the second book of a trilogy for my birthday, not realizing that it was the second (or even that it was part of a series). I read it despite the fact that I hadn't read the first book, or any book by the author, because we were away for the weekend and I had nothing else to read. I'm certainly glad she managed to introduce me to John Varley. By the way, I highly recommend John Varley ;-) regards, Geoff Canyon gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com