So as you can see I've deleted most of the pictures from my blog. The only ones I've left for now are the ones I added to my book reviews. So any of you book bloggers and Authors out there maybe you can answer a question for me. Should I leave the book cover pictures with the reviews or delete those as well.
I'm not sure the publisher, author or even Amazon would get mad for having the book cover along with a review because that's good publicity for the book, but if there's even a chance I could get in trouble for it...I'll take them down.
So do any of you have any thoughts on this?
Saturday, July 21, 2012
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Keep me posted on what the consensus is. My thought is that we are encouraged to post the covers so I can't imagine why it would be an issue but you never know in this day and age. I think the reverberations will be widespread and will take months to equilibrate!
ReplyDeleteI think if you're doing a review or talking about a book you like there's no reason why you can't post a book cover. That's my take anyway.
ReplyDeleteThe whole thing has me freaking out too. I just don't understand it. It's not like we're trying to pass off the pics as our own, we're not printing them out, charging people and taking money out of the photographers pockets. I would think that as long as the photo is credited to the photographer they would be thrilled for the free publicity, but after reading the comments on that blog post from photographers you'd think we were stealing the food straight from the mouths. It's such a conundrum. :/
ReplyDeleteI'm more than a little irritated by this whole thing. You would think if you make a picture and post it on the internet..that it's at some point going to be copied and posted some place else. If I didn't want my photos copied and put on another site or shared...I would not post them on the internet. Bloggers should NOT be getting sued for posting a picture, it's completely ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteIf you're reviewing the book,keep the cover and link back to where they can buy on Amazon or wherever. Trust me, authors want to sell books and that's free promo. If someone asks you to take one down, do it, but otherwise, I wouldn't see the issue.
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the feedback.
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