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Could we turn a book into a bestseller?
Could we turn a book into a bestseller?
If everyone on Talkback bought it. And they told their friends. And they told theirs. And everyone told their libraries/asked to borrow it. And told their reading groups and writers' groups. And gave it as a birthday/Christmas present. And wrote reviews on Amazon. And ... Well, you get the idea.
Could we?
Would it snowball - or would it stand a snowball's chance in hell?
Obviously I would like one of my books to be 'chosen', but I can see that there might be a few teensy, weensy problems with the subject matter. Hmm. Maybe a young adult book?
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I saw FMN's other post and didn't want to step on her toes.
sorry.
Wait, this reminds me of this comedian I like - David O' Doherty - he wanted to see if he could get a music hit at #27 in the Irish charts, in a similar way we are discussing. Only certain stores count weekly towards the charts, and it only counts if there is an interval of something like 20mins, so if he did a promotion at a store and everyone there bought it, it would only count as one purchase for the charts, if you understand what I mean. Anyway, he found out what stores counted and he and all his friends in different towns walked back and forth between two of these shops buying a cd every 20mins. He reached #30, nearly his goal.
While that is all to do with music, the rambling is meant to say that perhaps it is possible.
Then if it did work someone could write another book about how it worked!
And we could ask libraries to make it their 'book of the month'.
Ceka's on there 3 times and Dorothy twice, which means the '87' is actually '84', Jay.
And now we've both posted twice! :-(
What you mean "IF" it ever takes off ???!! ;)
This book is earmarked for the best seller of the century - not sure which one exactly, but time will tell ! :)
This is exactly what publishers attempt to do every day.
The only sure-fire way to make a book a best-seller is to make sure that the book is excellent to start off with, is in a very popular genre, and then throw a lot of money at it. It works suprisingly well.