Does the Rise of Ebooks Mean the Fall of SFF Cover Illustration?

While Andrea is out at ConFusion hanging with cool authors like Mary Robinette Kowal and Charles Stross she has handed me the keys to Little Red Reviewer.

*insert maniacal laugh here*

And what am I going to do with full reign of her website? Talk about books and art, what else?!?!

Please come over there and discuss your opinions on whether or not you think the ebook market will result in more covers like the awful one pictured above for the intriguing audio book anthology Rip-Off or whether artists like Stephan Martiniere, Dan Dos Santos, Michael Whelan, Jon Foster, Donato Giancola, et al will continue to be tapped to provide high quality art for science fiction and fantasy novels. Not only am I interested in your thoughts, but I am interested in whether or not you even care.

Come along to read my ramblings and to join in the discussion:

Energize!

(And in case anyone wants to point it out, I’ll tell you that I understand The Shoemaker’s Wife isn’t SFF, just wanted to include another really beautiful non-genre cover example in my picture as this is an issue not restricted to the genres of science fiction and fantasy)