Review: Very solid helpful straight forward advice
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 24, 2012
I have been doing a lot of research lately about writing kindle books, and actually just published my own first Kindle book in the chess niche, [...], so this book was really interesting to me.BJ has an inspirational message about how he started off with just one eBook that he wrote, and grew that into a publishing business, now with dozens of books.He keeps it simple, and "holds your hand" on the steps to get a book done and for sale.  The process scared me at first too.His ideas about book titles and subjects to write about are also really good "keep it simple stupid", which might seem obvious, but many people don't follow, and are quite clever.He has good ideas about marketing the book, and points out a lot of bad ideas that I have also seen authors do (trying to sell their books on their own website, writing books about themselves that no one cares about, etc) and doesn't sugar coat why these are bad ideas.The only minor criticism is that I am not sure he is right about the KDP select program.  I don't think that you are allowed to get a 70% commission from amazon, and still (legally) sell the books on B&N;, Apple, etc.  This may have been true when the book was written, but I don't think is accurate now (but I am not an expert and could be mistaken) He does have good ideas about selling on multiple platforms, some of which I never considered.I've done a lot of research in this area, and spent a lot of time in eBook forums, and this book offered me a lot of new ideas, perspectives, and food for thought in this area.  It is a nice quick read, and I would recommend it.