Review: Some Good Ideas Here if You Can Endure a Book that Was NEVER Proofread
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 30, 2014
Muhammad Simandar claims his methods of writing and promoting eBooks for the Amazon Kindle will earn you six figures easily or he'll give you your money back. Fortunately, I got this book during a free promotion and there isn't anything to refund me.Some of what Simandar imparts is good information. It's obvious this book was written by one of his favorite methods of creating eBooks that will be popular. I'll use the word "Combination" and that's all I'm going to say on that point. In his favor, he names a lot of resources for authors to outsource, find ghostwriters, get covers made, etc. without inundating the reader with affiliate links. On the negative side, he advocates proofreading nowhere in this book and it shows.Smandar tells the reader his national origin in the book. He's not from a country that speaks English as a first language. Although he's fairly fluent, there are glaring proofreading errors throughout this book including errors in spelling, grammar and sentence structure. It's highly distracting and it takes away from what otherwise would be good content and what might actually make this the type of book that could help him pull in six figures personally. I doubt he's really doing that right now with this quality of work.I did want to say something about the author's advocacy of paid reviews. They happen. We all know they do. I know people that have paid for reviews of their books and insisted on 5 star reviews just because they were paying. That's where paying for them becomes wrong, in my eyes. On the other hand, I see no harm in paying for an honest review where the reviewer is free to leave a review that might be far less than stellar. The author could certainly choose not to have the reviewer post it or, if he or she is responsible, have them post it and then speak to the concerns in the review and make the corrections that make sense in their living document eBook. A better idea would be to solicit top reviewers here on Amazon to read and review the book honestly (and free) and to take your lumps as they come. That would be my two cents.