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A luminous, brave, and unputdownable article about blurbs (countercraft.substack.com)
8 points by benbreen 10 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


A revelatory read that is surely going to end as up one of the year’s standouts. I didn’t expect the twist at the end!


"I believe the insistence on blurbs has become incredibly damaging to what should be our industry’s ultimate goal: producing books of the highest possible quality."

Certainly that should be the industry's ultimate goal. One might have a hard time inferring that from a visit to the local bookstore.




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