E-books are dumb!

How is a flat cover any more "real" for an ebook than the so called 3D cover? How can something that is downloaded electronically have a cover at all? You said, "It don't seem right to have a picture of one thing and and sell something else." So why do you think it's okay to have a cover at all for something that is downloaded electronically--that has no tangibility at all?

The fact is, the majority of the people on the internet understand that the 3D image is for an ebook. I never looked at a site selling an ebook an expected to get a paperback despite the 3D image.

I don't generally think I am smarter than the average bear, but on this I think I am one up on you. Most people prefer the 3D image over the flat image or know image at all. This is reflected in that more ebooks are sold when a 3D image is shown. And a flat image creates more sales than no image.

But since neither image is "real" what does it matter whether it is 3D or not?

By the way, Amazon and other online bookstores show what you call flat images of paperback books. Why don't you complain about that? According to your logic they are showing pictures of "ebooks" and not paperbacks.

Just my thoughts.
Sharon