Simon & Schuster's flagship imprint is going to get rid of those little quotes from other authors on the back and front. I'm torn, having been a bookseller, a book reviewer and having been asked to write many blurbs. I'm also on holiday so I can't columnise on it, so here's a 🧵 instead.
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"Gamefication" without any evidence, then publishers stopped sending printed desk copies.
Perhaps calling the marketing quotations a blurb is how publishers justify them being plastered all over my book?
Also dislike the 15 pages of thank yous from the author at the end of the book, to people I don't know who are just doing their job... makes me wonder who wrote the book really.