January 14, 2011

get a tattoo, get free stuff

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Some news from our inbox: Two small presses have offered lifetime subscriptions to readers who get tattoos based on their books. The post at the link notes the interesting implications of this for other companies, asking what would happen if McDonald’s offered free Big Macs to anyone with a tattoo of the golden arches. (Which of course leads me to wonder: would I get a chipotle tattoo for free burrito bowls?) As for Harper Perennial, we can’t offer any lifetime subscriptions, but if someone showed up with a tattoo of our olive logo I would happily throw them some books (and be incredibly weirded out.)

And just for the record, I would not get a chipotle tattoo.

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