Comments on: What Will Make Your Book A Bestseller

By: internet nerds are cool

internet nerds are cool — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:26:26 +0000

times have changed.

By: Forkatude

Forkatude — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:11:18 +0000

I’m going to say it.

“And sparkling vampires.”

*Is thrown into pit of screaming teenage girls*

By: philip

philip — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:09:00 +0000

I don’t remember Harry Potter have “a powerful concept that will change the world and bring about a new age of peace and prosperity for all”.

By: Momomushu

Momomushu — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 04:44:46 +0000

ok there is no such thing as a sparkly vamiper there is only the blood suking type

By: Izzie Stevens

Izzie Stevens — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:14:34 +0000

I so hope that if I get published, I’m not on Oprah!

By: amethyst

amethyst — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:31:58 +0000

Yeah, and by 5 pm all the copies are sold or reserved, and no restock until the middle of next week. Better yet, no restock until the publisher reprints.

By: Diego

Diego — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:27:42 +0000

The graph says it all.

By: Pingo T Best

Pingo T Best — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:53:48 +0000

oh yeah, I forgot that part.

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:30:54 +0000

This is sadly true. I worked at a bookstore and knew someone had been on Oprah when the phone started ringing off the hook around 4 in the afternoon.

By: Maiden!

Maiden! — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:24:15 +0000

VAMPIRES!

By: Czernobog

Czernobog — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:44:38 +0000

Oprah zombies need braaaainssss.

By: cj

cj — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:29:35 +0000

I saw Oprah on a magazine cover last night in the grocery store. Isn’t she starting to really show her age and not in a good way.

By: rach

rach — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:23:05 +0000

If its on Oprah, then you KNOW it’s terrible.

By: LibrarianJessica

LibrarianJessica — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:05:12 +0000

*eye roll* yeah, I’ll get right on that.

By: Orca

Orca — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:57:22 +0000

Hah, another graph that looks just like -every- other one on the site.

Congrats, this is my 500th time seeing a graph like this, and it’s STILL funny =D

/sarcasm

By: amethyst

amethyst — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:37:47 +0000

So true. “I’m looking for that book I saw on Oprah…” Us booksellers had better pay attention. On the other hand, when we do, we look like geniuses. Actually, any major media outlet will work, but Oprah most of all.

By: Mariachi

Mariachi — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:00:57 +0000

It worked for Towelie in the South Park episode where he poses as a human to publish his memoirs…

By: UltimateExtreme

UltimateExtreme — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:43:24 +0000

Dangit! My plot was foiled again!
(Meaning I was just going to post that.)

By: Cowlifornia

Cowlifornia — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:10:50 +0000

you mean that ugly annoying fat person on tv? :/

By: tytoon

tytoon — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:03:40 +0000

hmmm you forgot turn a horror monster into a romantic fantasy for teenage girls who are too old to still like the jonas brothers but to young to have much common sense.

By: chaoticidealism

chaoticidealism — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:01:30 +0000

Well, it worked for Jenny McCarthy. That, and parading her kid’s autism around in public. I can only imagine how mortified he’s going to be when he’s a teenager.

By: mattmann

mattmann — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:26:04 +0000

you shud make a book out of that

By: mattmann

mattmann — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:23:30 +0000

HAHAHA
read me Dr Suess

By: Kristin

Kristin — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:52:21 +0000

LOL yep.. same thing I was thinking.

By: Elfking

Elfking — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:40:34 +0000

…Why does EVERY new graph seem like a repost to me?!
Are my psychic powers going nuts nowadays or something?!
I could bet every Harry Potter book I own that I’ve seen this before, somehow!

By: lentilky

lentilky — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:12:53 +0000

I just wanted to ask but you’ve been quicker.
Lol for you!

By: jmac23

jmac23 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:30:31 +0000

o but it is as extreme as this

By: katdemon♥fire

katdemon♥fire — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:19:59 +0000

oh damn, I was gonna say that…

By: philip

philip — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:27:18 +0000

This had better been a bar graph: they aren’t mutually exclusive and I doubt the distribution of popular books is as extreme as this.

By: abnormal

abnormal — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:14:37 +0000

wht about sparkly vampires?

By: LibrarianJessica

LibrarianJessica — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:50:51 +0000

This graph is so true that it’s not really funny.

By: Zedo Mann

Zedo Mann — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:46:36 +0000

Your mom’s a true.

By: troll 5

troll 5 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:40:22 +0000

5TH!

By: Me

Me — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:34:04 +0000

That’s false.

By: Ronaldo

Ronaldo — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:11:38 +0000

That’s true.

By: Pingo T Best

Pingo T Best — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:06:22 +0000

Or being a poorly-written self-fullfiling fantasy with flatter than paper characters.