Review: Selling Real Content on the KDP Market
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 30, 2014
A simply marvelous how-to guide to Kindle Publishing with the RIGHT philosophy, a philosophy of publishing that a great many eBooklet "authors" ignore and cause the KDP field to suffer accordingly. I have been reviewing eBooklets since a first encounter with the sheer disgusted disappointment of a .99 cent, 16 page publication two months ago. Many since then have been decent, some not, but only one of the lot had I personally felt actually worth the asking price.The author approached me, asking if I would review his work, and since at the time it was still being offered for free on Amazon, I downloaded, read, and rejoiced. Sikandar had me fully sold in his introduction with the following:"You see there is so much garbage information floating around right now it's clogging the system and is making it hard for legitimate authors and publishers to flourish. It's gotten so bad I feel it's my duty and obligation to at least attempt to repair some of the damage."and"... you must care about your readers and about your titles."Sikandar goes beyond this golden philosophy and gives concrete, step-by-step, detailed instructions on how one goes about Kindle publishing in a variety of practical, pertinent topics. As for the grammar/syntax issues others may have felt to be troublesome, I can only shrug at the myriad of mish-mash publications that already flood the field, not even entertaining the tripe often offered as full length novels, which garner incredibly glowing reviews in spite of seriously glaring lack of any proofreading. I found no particular readability issues, the style being as if the author was talking amiably with you about Kindle publishing.My ONLY concern and ONLY reason I review eBooklets is to help consumers get REAL content for their money. Sikandar embodies what he teaches in KDP, and I both loudly applaud and strongly recommend.