Very rarely do the team at Biteback feel the urge to stray outside of our catalogue for their political reading. Why would you need to when you have in-depth political commentary on all the parties, memoirs, biographies and all topics of political debate - from civil liberties to wartime history, and international affairs to local policy.
However, every now and again our eye is caught by something that we can’t really help but buy into.
I know, it’s shameful that we would buy other books, but we can’t help it if we’re Stephanie Meyer fans! And yes, maybe we did quite enjoy The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, so did a lot of people! Shut up, alright.
But we’re not talking about those, we’re talking about a book called The Day The Kindle Died by Thomas Hertog. In this e-book the author tells how he managed to get his book to the top spot in Amazon’s personal finance bestseller list, a technique which he claims can be replicated by any book for any category, despite having only sold 32 copies to third parties.
It was such a cheeky idea that the Guardian wrote about it yesterday (although the article largely focussed upon the book’s controversial disappearance from the site early in the New Year).
And we’re not going to lie... we are rather fascinated to read it.
However, it would only be for the sake of our own curiosity, of course, we would never employ the technique. Damn you, moral code!
So when you see a Biteback title at the top of Amazon’s list of bestselling political books, know that we did it ourselves. God bless you, tenacity!