OMG!!!! Look closely, folks, and you'll see one of my books on the bottom row! It's from the Italian edition of my very first book, but hey... I'm on Fox News!
Uh... that's a good thing, right
Seriously, that article is a mess. All the covers shown are circa the eighties (my Italian cover was actually lifted from an earlier Western cover, as foreign covers often are). But "heaving bosoms"? There haven't been heaving bosoms (or their masculine equivalent, "throbbing manhoods") in romances since, yep, the eighties. And what is this about "salacious chick lit"? Chick lit and romance are NOT the same genre, guys.
Basically, this is out-of-date nonsense... just as out of date as the ELLEN FISHER COVER on the bottom row *snerks and runs off to Twitter to make the most of my two seconds of fame*. That being said, I don't deny that pecs sell as ebooks (obviously!), but so do a whole lot of other things.
ETA: And some of these are actually spoof covers.
For the Love of Scottie McMullet? Tee hee. Come on, Fox, do some research-- don't just grab images randomly off Google!