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The Bookseller - News - To blurb or not to blurb: UK trade weighs in on author quotes in 2025

North asked her readers on Instagram and Facebook about blurbs and was “staggered” both by the huge volume of responses and feedback that they “don’t give a fig” for author blurbs. She said: “What I learned very quickly from almost 200 comments [in one day], is that readers don’t want to be preached at with quotes. They want to have immediate access to the cover copy... to make their judgment on the quality of the cover, on how appetising and enticing the book appears to be from the quality of the cover copy and they don’t want that hidden or compromised by a whole load of quotes that they don’t really care about and they don’t really trust.”