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I Just Sold My 500th Book. If I Was Allowed to Advertise It I'd Be Rich

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Re: I Just Sold My 500th Book. If I Was Allowed to Advertise It I'd Be Rich

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The political satire for adults framed as children's books is the most boring genre of books that's become strangely prominent in the last decade or so.

I think they've been around for a while—parody versions of the books parents were read to as children. I think "Go the Fuck to Sleep" was a a breakout hit, and that probably fueled a lot of this.

Re: I Just Sold My 500th Book. If I Was Allowed to Advertise It I'd Be Rich

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You lost me on the title of this post "If X I'd be rich", without reading a single word immediately my reaction is "that's an incredibly naive or just plain stupid viewpoint". After reading the blog post my initial reaction was correct. Heck, I'd probably be a billionaire if only someone had invested in my first startup /s See how silly that sounds? Also as others have pointed out Amazon is not the only advertiser on…

> You lost me on the title of this post "If X I'd be rich", without reading a single word immediately my reaction is "that's an incredibly naive or just plain stupid viewpoint".

It's possible that he was being facetious.

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