I am curious though about your choice of layout and typography here. It looks like a book from the late 70’s or early 80’s based on the font and the layout.

Compare it to McNally’s “Hot Shoe Diaries”, Jarvis’ “The Best Camera” or DuChemin’s “Within the Frame” for a simple modern cover (to pick some from the bestseller lists).
These are more manuals though, while “Lidlips” is more of an essay collection. I guess a better comparison would be Tagg’s “The Disciplinary Frame”, Barthes’ “Camera Lucida” or Dyer’s “The Ongoing Moment”.

My point is that I think you’re going to loose a lot of buyers, since most people buy books based on the first impression – cover and blurb (I’m speaking as an ex-bookstore employee here). Everybody who reads this blog is going to buy it anyway (myself included), as they know the content and won’t really care that much about the cover, but Joe Q Public cares very much about the layout.

If it’s still possible, my opinion is to redo the cover once more.
The Lidlips series is great and I wish it all possible success as a book. A great cover is part of that.

Here we have a challenging, visually-arresting title, enticing sub-head, magnificently artistic, flowing cover image and a powerful, prideful content description below.

Cover art sells books. And magazines. And authors.

The adventure is about to begin.

Have a great ride, Syl …