The Twitter, it is NOT for selling books

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Twitter isn't built to sell books. Or anything else.

Yet if you belong to the Twitter, you see all sorts of authors pimping their books.

Some do it subtly, or randomly. Others do it faithfully, if not relentlessly.

And even if they mount a full Social Networking Offensive -- a combined-forced attack with tweets on the ground, blog battleships at sea and Facebook fighter planes swooping down from above -- even if they do all that, they will fail.

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I'm still reading this post, but the author has made me laugh several times already, and I've been nodding my head in agreement and nearly crying from understanding how awful this truth is. So I thought I'd go on and share it now.