Stolen from a Facebook group I'm in!! 🤣 Literally ran into this problem while book shopping this past weekend; why do they do this?!? #litsylaughs #memes #bookmemes
wanderinglynn Agree! I hate when the “description” gives trite phrases or compares it to other books. 3y
SeaToSkyes @wanderinglynn yes! One that I looked at only had quotes from other authors or from like book reviews on it. That doesn't help at all! 3y
The_Penniless_Author Lol, Slate just ran an article about this very subject. Apparently, book descriptions are now calibrated to trigger certain algorithms that help them get noticed on social media. Kind of like the 50-word-long subtitles many non-fiction books have now to optimize their Amazon search results. 3y
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SeaToSkyes @The_Penniless_Author oh my gosh that's crazy!! 3y
The_Penniless_Author According to the article, Macmillan released something like 36 books last year that were described as "haunting" ? 3y
SeaToSkyes @The_Penniless_Author I have been noticing that many of them sound the same or similar 3y
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