Who's missing?

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[Poll #1046886]

Actual answer here. Vote before you click.

EDIT: See also jlassen's two entries, and Andrew Wheeler here.

FURTHER EDIT: Commentary from rosefox here and cristalia here.

Comments

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I'm not implying that -- I was suggesting that the number of women who will be put off buying an anthology by an all-male cover is large enough to put a noticeable dent in sales, and larger than the number of men who would be put off by a cover with some women on it. A big part of this debate comes down to whether or not that is, in fact, true; there are at least quite a few women, in the comments here and on the other posts, who have said they look for women's names on the covers of anthologies, and would buy this anthology on the base of the full TOC but not on the basis of the cover, not because they only read stories by women, or even because they always strongly prefer stories by women, but because they prefer to read books where they at least feel that women are included in the conversation. Whether or not they can be scaled up, well, your guess is as good as mine, but it points at the real issue, as outlined in rosefox's post, which is that the cover just doesn't do that good a job of showing a potential customer what the anthology is like.