Ask HN: Has anyone made money self-publishing tech criticism?
3•lucaherrorpress•2mo ago
I'm an Italian writer who published two satirical books on Amazon: 'The Algorithm Is an Asshole' and 'The Performance: 36 Portraits of Life in the Attention Economy.'
Zero sales in months. I tried BookSprout ($9 for 108 fake impressions, 0 reviews). Every platform I use to promote books about algorithm manipulation... uses algorithm manipulation to bury me.
The irony is crushing. Has anyone here actually sold indie books criticizing tech without getting destroyed by the systems they criticize? Or is this just Kafka's final joke?
Comments
bryanrasmussen•2mo ago
I think the problem you're having here is you feel persecuted by the algorithms, and the algorithms don't care. Everybody is getting persecuted and buried by the algorithms, whether they criticize or praise them.
bryanrasmussen•2mo ago