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Originally Posted by gmw
Despite my little attempts at humour, I think your advice is good. Not that I personally find one-word titles in any way off-putting or otherwise peevish, it's just not a good idea from a marketing perspective.
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I don't find most of them off-putting, just the overused ones!
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Even if I had really wanted one-word titles I had other choices, and I may have been wiser to go with those. The first book could have (legitimately, and with equal or greater relevance) had a title of "Aaranya" - which not only would have been less common, it would have been like starting a company called Aardvark Enterprises  .
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Heh, like AAA Electrical? I usually flip to the middle of the Yellow Pages results just to avoid those ones...