Review: Assembly vs. writing
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 3, 2014
The title of this book is deceiving. The book says nothing about how to make huge amounts of money with your Kindle book. It does rehash the instructions for creating and uploading a Kindle book - these sections look like they’ve been lifted pretty much lock, stock, and barrel from the Amazon KDP site, and you can get them there, for free. Much of this book is also taken up by lists - pages of them - of links you could, once again, find yourself with a search engine and a few minutes, free. There’s nothing earth-shattering or even original here. The sum total of the advice is how to find out which books sell the best and then ‘assemble’ Kindle books to match those categories. And I mean assemble, not write: the author advises that you find other peoples’ recipes, etc., or hire a ghostwriter or essay-writer, then just stick the parts together. If you are an author who writes about what you are passionate about, what you are motivated to write about, if you write those things that teem in your imagination in order to share your worlds with readers - this book is not for you. And I’m afraid you’re not going to find out anything you couldn’t easily find out by perusing the Goodreads forums or the KDP forums. The author is apparently trying to follow his own advice, but what gets produced through this method is rehashed, recycled, and unoriginal (and grammatically incorrect to boot!)