Twitter absolutely sells books. In particular, it sells:
--ebooks (instant gratification)
--reasonably priced books (low cost experimenting)
--books to voracious readers who want lots of recs
--books to people looking for something specific/hard to find in mainstream pub https://twitter.com/lydia_petze/status/1200357232262565888">https://twitter.com/lydia_pet...
--ebooks (instant gratification)
--reasonably priced books (low cost experimenting)
--books to voracious readers who want lots of recs
--books to people looking for something specific/hard to find in mainstream pub https://twitter.com/lydia_petze/status/1200357232262565888">https://twitter.com/lydia_pet...
The authors saying "Oh, Twitter is nothing, you need your publisher to get the book stocked in independent bookshops" or whatever are speaking about a section of the book world that is very much not all.