How often
do you glance at a book’s blurb on Amazon to find statements like ‘best
seller’, ‘Top 100 book’, ‘Top selling author’, on it? I’m finding I see it more
and more frequently. And I don’t have a problem with it providing that it’s true
and still holds true. If a book
briefly made a top 100 list then I don’t think it counts, especially when the
book is currently hundreds of thousands in the opposite direction.
do you glance at a book’s blurb on Amazon to find statements like ‘best
seller’, ‘Top 100 book’, ‘Top selling author’, on it? I’m finding I see it more
and more frequently. And I don’t have a problem with it providing that it’s true
and still holds true. If a book
briefly made a top 100 list then I don’t think it counts, especially when the
book is currently hundreds of thousands in the opposite direction.
How do you
feel about such claims?
feel about such claims?
I just
can’t give any credit to an author who appears to be making them up. It really
irks me! Maybe this is being over sensitive but as a reader I feel ripped off
if you claim your book is a top 100 read when in reality it’s tanking!?!
can’t give any credit to an author who appears to be making them up. It really
irks me! Maybe this is being over sensitive but as a reader I feel ripped off
if you claim your book is a top 100 read when in reality it’s tanking!?!
As an
author, I totally understand that that one day your book hit a top 100 or the
top 100 is a HUGE day – I just don’t feel right using it as an advertising
gimmick if it doesn’t stay in the top.
author, I totally understand that that one day your book hit a top 100 or the
top 100 is a HUGE day – I just don’t feel right using it as an advertising
gimmick if it doesn’t stay in the top.
… I don’t
know, how do you guys feel about it? Some of my favourite authors ARE top
sellers or WERE and by that we’re talking millions of copies sold. Now that’s a
feat that I feel is a legitimate reason to plaster ‘top seller’ across the
title/blurb whatever. But if you just had an awesome day, that doesn’t really
add up the same, at least not to this potential reader.
know, how do you guys feel about it? Some of my favourite authors ARE top
sellers or WERE and by that we’re talking millions of copies sold. Now that’s a
feat that I feel is a legitimate reason to plaster ‘top seller’ across the
title/blurb whatever. But if you just had an awesome day, that doesn’t really
add up the same, at least not to this potential reader.
From what I understand, some of those claims aren't untrue, it's just the top 100 list they made it into was obscure and it only took one sale. They're just leaving out that fact.