Review: 3.99 for Basic, Common Sense... spend this money elsewhere
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 15, 2014
It's not that this book is badly written, or that it's even inaccurate, but 3.99 just seems like too high a price to pay for basic, common sense.  Here's the breakdown: Don't buy reviews, don't ask your family and friends to do reviews, reach out to the Top 500 or 1000 reviewers on Amazon and ask nicely with a couple specific compliments about their other reviews so that they feel special.  Send a "Thank You" if they review it.  Basically, it's Emily Post Good Manners for Correspondence.  If you're looking for more solid, interesting and innovative advice as an independent author-- I think I got far more out of Michael Alvear's "Make a Killing on Kindle", ET Barton's "Get More Reviews...", Tim Grahl's "Your First 1000 Copies" and David Gaughran's "Let's Get Visible".  They're all unique point's of view, and while you might not go for all the advice, it's better food for thought than anything I got out of this book.