Here I am Reading in My Bathtub

Gasp! You weren’t expecting a picture to accompany that headline were you? I just enjoy reading in the bathtub: It sure beats doing it while showering. Okay, so I’m lying. I’m actually typing on my laptop but I was reading a literature book before that. But while relaxing in the bath and reading my book I started wondering why people read? I thought it worth a post.

Conversational Hypnosis is Awesome!

Why do you read? Obviously, a person reads a fiction to enjoy a story and another reads a non-fiction to learn more about the topic. But there is one more possible motivation for reading and that is one reason why self-published books have such a difficult time gaining notice. Many people read so that they have something interesting to discuss with others who have read the same literature book. To accomplish that objective, the reader has to choose a popular book, even if it is one that reviewers have panned.

So I wonder, while topping up the tub with hotter water, how could self-published authors tap into this tightly held market? The best book store shelves are all co-opted to big publishers and the online book sellers cater to showing off the best-sellers too. Giving a book maximum exposure and publicity implies to readers that ‘a book might not be any good but at least many other people have bought it too and so readers can share a commonality of complaining about what an over-hyped and poor literature book it was.

Oh well. For now, all I can do is relax in the hot water, wait idly Bye and wish This self-published Book promotion inequality will change some day. And of course I’m wet and waiting for someone to Click My Lit.