I occasionally add art to albums in Amazon if their scan is of poor quality or are too small for my purposes. I recently did this for the recent Love release by the Beatles. (Mine is the customer image of the cover)
A bunch of people have responded to the image, the overwhelming majority are positive, but some say that the image isn’t helpful. I don’t have a problem with that, but I’m wracking my brain trying to figure out what’s wrong with it. I try my best to make sure my scan is high quality and color -match it to the physical printed piece. But maybe it’s showing up different on other people’s monitors. I dunno.
Are you referring to the “Was this image helpful? (Yes/No)” responses? I imagine some people saw it’s the same image as the one that was on Amazon already, and don’t care about (or even notice) the better resolution.
Yeah, that’s what I was referring to. You may have a point. Maybe some people expect this feature as a way to include the rest of the booklet art. Hmm.
I wouldn’t say that the image is unhelpful. I don’t think that is necessarily a critique. The image is very nice, I wish there were more as good. I’ve responded to reviews before as helpful. What I meant by that was that someone’s glowing review helped me to decide to buy it (CDs usually). In the case of cover art, it wouldn’t affect my decision to buy or not. I wouldn’t be so negative as to vote that it was unhelpful, but it wouldn’t be helpful to me. See what I mean?
Ah, okay. Again, I’m thinking of these pictures’ usage too narrowly. I specifically use these for adding album art to my MP3 collection. Hadn’t even dawned on me that they’re used by other people for other things.
I’ve responded to reviews before as helpful. What I meant by that was that someone’s glowing review helped me to decide to buy it (CDs usually). In the case of cover art, it wouldn’t affect my decision to buy or not. I wouldn’t be so negative as to vote that it was unhelpful, but it wouldn’t be helpful to me. See what I mean?