Review: Partly outstanding, but sadly overall contradictory, and vastly hype
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 21, 2013
Why I bought it: I buy EVERY book on the topic of KDP. As a decades-long unsuccessful traditionally-published author you just "have" to do that in order to prepare well.Why, for me, this book is partly outstanding:- The language used may (hopefully) be able to get even the toughest no-sayers, economy-complainers, and I-need-to-find-a-job but I-don't-find-one people of their bum and just DO it what this book says!- Very honest insights, like say "Every author flops at some point" (he means one of the books may flop), "Don't write a long first book", "You should have an emotional investment in every book you write", "Over-delivery is what you strive for", and the "mass-affect concept".- Amazing marketing of a guy with an initially ordinary name: First-class pen name choice - AND follow-through!Why I find this book overall contradictory:- Throughout this short book, and right with the first sentence, he proclaims: "You son of a bitch, I'm going to make you rich" - through selling eBooks!?! OMG, when will internet marketers stop claiming this never-ending nonsense?!- This is the typical Apollo-rocket hype of an internet marketer - lacking all substance. At the moment I am writing this, his book's sales rank of 8,379 suggests it is selling a mere 360 copies a month. At 35 cent royalty (99 cent book price) his earnings from this book amount to the mind-boggling wealth of $126 a month. Not even the unemployed would dare to call this "rich". Not even after say 10 years of getting this monthly income (IF the book lasts so long).- By HYPING the eBook publishing via kdp he (like 82 other "kdp" authors currently as well!) actually UNDER-delivers on his promises, claiming such nonsense like "passive income" (doesn't exist, you work first, like in every other job), and "getting rich" ($126/month??). Make it 100 books like that, it's still ridiculous.- So, he claims you should OVER-deliver on the book title, but he himself UNDER-delivers on his own book title.- It seems, he didn't notice this though. Would I think he did, he'd receiced 1 star, maximum.Why this book is vastly hype: well, see above!Summary: In my view, this book is worth buying - for the gems like the ones I mentioned above - nonetheless the CONTENT is 98 fluff. Hype. Bluff.Sad. Very sad. Maybe this review (he says he reads all) helps him to understand that UNDERstatement is superior to any form of hype.Edit: Oh, forgot to say: No, this book is NOT "German money engineering". I am German (well half), and this book's hype is totally UNgerman. Germans in general would never write that way. But this point won't change the three stars I gave it (which is still a lot, come on).