A new report suggests that the text from Facebook posts is more memorable for people than the text from books. Publishers must adjust if they want to compete with Facebook for readers' attention. My suggestion is to start by reworking the titles of popular novels. Here are some pitches:
- Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth? Yes, please!"
- Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises in an Instagram pic"
- William Shakespeare's "Romeo and It's Complicated with Juliet"
- George Eliot's "Silas Marner is listening to Clocks by Coldplay on Spotify"
- Leo Tolstoy's "War and LOL"
- Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at Coachella"
- Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, OH --> LAX --> NYC"
- F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby, No big deal"
- Joseph Heller's "Catch-22 cute things your child said today"
- James Joyce's "Profile Pic of the Artist as a Young Man"
- Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint about drivers in bad weather"
READER SUBMISSIONS
- "The Three Musketeers Are Engaged" - @gonefiction
- "The Old Man and The Sea Are Now Friends" - Les Alder
- "Meh Expectations" - @wubsidaisy
Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame near South Bend, IN"
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good one! do you want to be credited anonymously?
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ReplyDeleteCharles Dickens' "David Copperfield likes this"
"Meh Expectations." - From Wub
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