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As another person mentions, the book delivers a great nessage/idea, question is if a book is needed for sometthing which could have been summarized in a post. B
by thinbeige 9y ago
As another person mentions, the book delivers a great nessage/idea, question is if a book is needed for sometthing which could have been summarized in a post. But 99% of self-help books belong to this category.
Besides, I am wondering if HN is a good and free lead generation channel for self-help books since I see many people pointing to the right book in the right thread and context. This could be easily scaled.
- beat 9y agoThat would require it to be controlled, really. People recommend certain books because they're good. Word of mouth advertising. You can't just take word of mouth and automate it and productize it somehow. That kills its nature.
- thinbeige 9y agoThis is what I subtly questioned: How do you want to know if it's real word of mouth or growth hacking?
- beat 9y agoI cannot imagine the author of this book resorting to growth hacking.
- squeaky-clean 9y agoI've bought lots of books through HN recommendations, more often than not they're great. I do always check a bit of the poster's submission/comment history though, because people definitely do try to pitch their eBook or SaaS here.
- beat 9y agoI bought Deep Work off a HN recommendation, that included a whole bunch of follow-on comments about how great it was. And it was well worth it.