I knew that would get you to read this.
However, that wasn’t just a catchy title, but also the title of a book that went to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list almost a month before it even hit the shelves! One has to ask themselves what could have caused a book to be a bestseller before it’s even read. It turns out that sometimes what you think is the worst thing for you, turns out to be the best.
‘Go the Fuck to Sleep: A Storybook for exhausted parents’ was written by Adam Mansbach, a comedic author who said his daughter took hours to fall asleep and came up with this story one sleep night. It’s the perfect gift for any new parent and I’m told this book completely fits the way the things you would think after a sleepless night trying to get a kid to sleep. The excerpt I found was the following, it made me put in my order already.
The cats nestle close to their kittens now.
The lambs have laid down with the sheep.
You’re cozy and warm in your bed, my dear
Please go the fuck to sleep.
The book was originally scheduled to be released in October, but with all the buzz it has been pushed to next month. In the last month a pdf file of the book was being circulated on the internet which quickly went viral. The book has a great hook, is short, and being a file its easy to forward to others. This has led to a wildfire of publicity of the book which placed it on the bestseller list. I would imagine the publisher isn’t sure how to handle this. On the one hand they as an industry view piracy as bad. But on the other hand, you can’t buy this publicity for any amount of money, and certainly not from an independent publisher.
I’m not sure my opinion on this. I always have been a fan that information is for the world, and most of the time in my opinion if you have a quality product then piracy would actually help you. I haven’t yet found one of the pdf copies, but if I did, I think I would still be buying the book. In fact I have 4 on pre-order from Amazon. If nothing else this serves is proof that sometimes what you think is your worst enemy, can sometimes be your greatest ally.
And that’s just good advice for life in general.
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