Clever Experiment Proves We Do Judge Books by Their Covers

“Entitled The Diamond Club, the book was completely written by the Internet, it was a “rambling incoherent mess”, but it did have three things going for it:

• A Fifty Shade of Grey-inspired cover

• characters with trendy jobs (cupcake artist, blogger, etc.)

• lots and lots of sex

Are these things enough to turn a book into a best-seller? Yes, they are. The Diamond Club managed to climb to #4 on the iTunes chart, despite all the 1-star reviews from people who actually read it, just because it resembled every other book on there… This isn’t the first time something like this has happened. In 1969, 24 journalists put together Naked Came the Stranger, a novel full of sex, an incoherent plot, bad writing, meaningless dialogue and more sex, just to prove how low the American literary culture had sunk. It also became a best-seller.”

Read more: OddityCentral.com

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