Crowd-Sourced Erotic E-Book Cracks iBooks Top Ten
Nothing lately has been able to challenge the 50 Shades of Grey stranglehold atop best-seller lists but similar books have been inching into the top ten and at least one crowd-sourced effort has now done so.
According to a blog post by Matthew Cavner on the Vook blog, The Diamond Club is currently no. 4 in all paid e-books for iBooks and is a crowd-sourced effort orchestrated by the hosts of the NSFW podcast, Brian Brushwood and Justin Young.
The hosts asked their listeners to each submit a chapter of erotic fiction with the only stipulation being that they had to feature the same main character. The result lacks a cohesive plot but is packed with sex — reportedly. And that’s apparently enough to shoot it up the iBooks charts in the 50 Shades era.
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As far as I know, what explains that book’s popularity isn’t so much the sex, but the fact that it costs 99 cents and that the NSFW guys asked people to “please purchase and post a hilarious 5-star review” – as a joke. This video pretty much says everything http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzN1kI6K-fk&feature=player_embedded