Update:
This little Venn Diagram satire was noticed by Sheila at Gawker yesterday, and some self-satisfied, sanctimonious, humorless dork took it upon himself (I’m assuming MisterHippity is male) to correct the “inaccuracy” of my diagram. I’ll admit to not being an expert at creating Venn diagrams, and I sometimes get stumped on those little math quizzes you find when you need to verify you are a human being. However, I can read. And this is a powerful tool.
Having a look through the comments, it’s actually quite funny. He clearly understands the diagram I drew, yet was unable to perceive its humorous intent. You, dear alert readers, will also notice that MrHippity (who clearly isn’t) did not actually recreate the original diagram, because the original third (tiny, anguish-inducing circle) reads: “People who buy books written by bloggers.” (Not “read” as his diagram indicates.)
Here’s his “correct” version:
Of course, if this was more truthy, there would be no need for despair, because then promoting a book with a blog would be no problem. I think my version is way funnier. (Plus it has pretty colors and a nice font.)
I will let you be the judge.
Neither this source of humor, nor this one are sanctimonious, though there may be some self-satisfaction going on.
m.
May
O Bloody Hell
MisterHippity
May 22, 2008
Ouch.
So, in order to get a book written by a blogger bought the answer appears to be: under no circumstances promote it on the internet.
And when it does get bought you’ve then only got a 50/50 chance that the person buying it is a person who reads books anyway. That’s a lot of beds that need a leg raised.