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[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 163 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

"It's good, but we can't market it. If you were already famous in some other way so we could sell based on that, we would buy it."

Could have phrased it better, but I kinda get it.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 144 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

"It's good, but we're bad at actually selling books so we need you to be famous in another unrelated way to compensate for our incompetence"

FTFY

[–] BoulevardBlvd@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

No you didn't. People don't buy the memoirs of random people. The publisher can move heaven and Earth but people still wouldn't change the fact that the audience will never exist

[–] Nefara@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Sure they do, all the time, as long as it's an interesting story.

More than half of the books on this list are by "random" ie, non famous people.

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