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I think you could sell that as a book full of white pages. The lesson would be that the title drives the sales.

A few years ago I was genuinely going to do that, other than the first page which would just say something like "Write this book" in massive letters

I decided not to, mostly because of how blantantly wasteful it is (I guess blank pages which no information is less wasteful than filled pages with useless information, at least your not wasting ink, but its more blatant)

That reminds me of this meme: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/380/563/4f4...

Ah, that's the one I was trying to remember.

https://boingboing.net/2017/07/31/buy-the-book-how-i-made-29...

You could try it as an ebook :-)

For some reason I'm under the impression that an ebook wouldnt sell as well, and it'd be pretty humiliating to have this grand statement of "you can get rich just by making a get rich quick book, like this one" only for people to find out I made like £2 off it

If nobody buys it, then nobody will notice it. So there is no way to lose.

Its the perfect crime

You jest, but... https://www.rangevoting.org/FeynTexts.html

TL;DR: read the end of the first paragraph.

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