Review: The Author Obviously Has Friends Writing Her Reviews
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 27, 2013
This is by far the worst book on producing material for Kindle that I have ever read.  I have Kindle books up here at Amazon.  The oldest has been available in hardcover for thirteen years, and in Kindle form for five or six years.  And it's literate, unlike this overpriced joke called "Fun to Write for Kindle."  Rule number one has always been to come up with a catchy title, and this one only caught my eye because it sounds like it was written by someone with painfully poor English skills and no creativity.The author tells us she won't pad her book with filler, which is filler in and of itself.  She tells us she started out making only six dollars a month (and it's obvious why).  She has no idea what to do with punctuation marks, and refuses to spell out words in a book about writing words.  (Example: The use of the expression "gonna" instead of bothering to write "going to.")  The author also gives MISINFORMATION.  One example is how she tells us a Kindle writer must make at least one hundred dollars before KDP pays.  UNTRUE.  One of my shorter books typically makes sixty or seventy dollars a month and I'm paid every single month.  The book also contains absolutely no information on Kindle conversion or anything else that those considering writing for Kindle might need to know, so I suggest "Making A Killing On Kindle," which is far and away the best book on the subject of Kindle-writing.I assume readers of these reviews have probably already decided whether or not they'll buy this book, so I won't go on.  But as someone who was writing for Kindle years before the author began, I just feel like I need to warn readers that this book will NOT give them the information they need (and is an example of the cheap, quick, and dirty writing being sold as Kindle material in too many cases).If you have writing abilities and want an option to blogging, standard e-books, technical writing, etc., and/or are tired of going through the often-long wait of finding a publisher, Kindle is a great way to go.  Just please make sure you've at least passed Comp 101 first, because the author of this book was obviously absent.  Often.