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I don't know whether the subtitle "The New International Slavery" adds to or deducts from "Impressing the Whites", the main title about racism in the literary and larger world, especially from the point of view of brown people and brown men the world over. (It did very well in India for a while, but I have paid a heavy price for my brashness and honesty.) I have been under the impression that nonfiction books do better with longer, explanatory titles. Especially IF the words in the title count in the search function. My Dutch friend is of the opinion that shorter titles are better, "you shouldn't feel like you have to explain everything in the title."
Also with "Benzo Land", which had the subtitle "How Doctors and Drug Companies Enslave Us," and which I've shortened to "How Drug Companies Enslave Us," and is part-memoir, part discussion/expose. In a way, Benzo Land alone is mysterious is title.
I have also felt compelled to add "A Novel" in "The Revised Kama Sutra: A Novel," because some automatically think of the book as a serious attempt to revise the Kama Sutra.
I am willing to change the titles rather than not reach readers; artistic integrity lies in the contents, and not in the title. I feel great regret for the title "The Revised Kama Sutra", which was supposed to be comic/ironic, but lost me thousands of readers, as one can glean from just this one review: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-revised-kama-sutra-richard-crasta/1103565972?ean=2940012972170
Also with "Benzo Land", which had the subtitle "How Doctors and Drug Companies Enslave Us," and which I've shortened to "How Drug Companies Enslave Us," and is part-memoir, part discussion/expose. In a way, Benzo Land alone is mysterious is title.
I have also felt compelled to add "A Novel" in "The Revised Kama Sutra: A Novel," because some automatically think of the book as a serious attempt to revise the Kama Sutra.
I am willing to change the titles rather than not reach readers; artistic integrity lies in the contents, and not in the title. I feel great regret for the title "The Revised Kama Sutra", which was supposed to be comic/ironic, but lost me thousands of readers, as one can glean from just this one review: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-revised-kama-sutra-richard-crasta/1103565972?ean=2940012972170