• rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    “It’s good, but we’re bad at actually selling books so we need you to be famous in another unrelated way to compensate for our incompetence”

    FTFY

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        21 hours ago

        “they” don’t though. The low level employee/intern who read it might but that entire industry is up its own ass smelling it’s own farts at the top.

    • BoulevardBlvd@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      No you didn’t. People don’t buy the memoirs of random people. The publisher can move heaven and Earth but people still wouldn’t change the fact that the audience will never exist

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        23 hours ago

        Sure they do, all the time, as long as it’s an interesting story.

        More than half of the books on this list are by “random” ie, non famous people.

      • AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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        22 hours ago

        Who said anything about memoirs? The thing about “the memoirs of random people” is not that they were written by non-famous people - it’s that they are about non-famous people.

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        21 hours ago

        Remember Oprah and a million little pieces. I’m pretty sure that guy was a complete unknown before he made that shit up.