alt Hacker NewsThis might be survivorship bias, the people who read and enjoy a difficult book for the sake of it probably don’t need social media validation to do so.
This might be survivorship bias, the people who read and enjoy a difficult book for the sake of it probably don’t need social media validation to do so.
or it might be marketing and sales trying to push that book, right? I am not sure what you mean by social media validation though. Telling people what they should like and what they shouldn't like with an external motive to make them like things you sell, is much much older than social media. Blindly engaging with that and basing your views on it is not optimal was my point.