+ My understanding is that the Hacker News ranking algorithm penalizes posts that aren't links to keep it from being used as a blog. So it might be better to write up a blog post about the book and submit that instead.
+ My observation is that book authors who write useful informative blog posts about their topic [rather than obvious promotional collateral] tend to be better received by the HN community, though like everything else, those posts stand I high chance of passing mostly unnoticed.
+ My observation is that external surveys rarely receive much consideration from the HN community relative to interesting blog posts.
+ Samples preceding the email harvesting would probably stand a better chance of peeking the vistor's interest in the book...showing potential readers that the book is worth reading is worth considering.
+ My understanding is that the Hacker News ranking algorithm penalizes posts that aren't links to keep it from being used as a blog. So it might be better to write up a blog post about the book and submit that instead.
+ My observation is that book authors who write useful informative blog posts about their topic [rather than obvious promotional collateral] tend to be better received by the HN community, though like everything else, those posts stand I high chance of passing mostly unnoticed.
+ My observation is that external surveys rarely receive much consideration from the HN community relative to interesting blog posts.
+ Samples preceding the email harvesting would probably stand a better chance of peeking the vistor's interest in the book...showing potential readers that the book is worth reading is worth considering.
Good luck.