Review: It's a pretty good book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 19, 2012
I have read many books on self publishing and quite a few on formatting.  I think what I like most about Crush it was the way it approach's self publishing.  It truly is unlike any other industry, it certainly is a ground floor, actually, I think he missed it a bit as it is probably down in the basement ground floor opportunity with kindle and ebooks.  All in all, he did a nice job in laying out a pretty good road map as to how all of this shapes up.  I am always looking for the free downloads of course, but this is one that I would put on my "buy" list.  It's worth the money at any price.  You know, if you pick up just a couple of idea's of how to promote your ebook, and he gives about twenty places that have links to post your book and more practical advise for those of us that really do not have the time nor the inclination to spend all of our time on facebook, twitter or other social media.  His down to earth advice is if you have the time, go for it, but here is a couple of other area's you might want to consider.  I think what I came away from with this book is that we make it harder than it really is in our minds.  If we follow some basic advice, we are indeed going to "get er done".  Not a bad philosophy and I have to admit a confidence builder.  I have published quite a few books and I have had problems formatting no matter how simple KDP tells us it is , it ain't.  First book I downloaded took me about eleven hours to format and now it takes about two hours.  He gives a pretty good section on formatting simply from a Word Document and using Kindle to transfer it to mobi.  It really is a lot easier than we give it credit for. Basically, follow his advice on staying the heck away from backspaces, indents and tab's and you might just get it formatted and looking pretty good. I don't want to give the book away, but from someone who has published a bushel of ebooks, I found it quite a pleasant read.  No, I don't know the author, never met him.  Tried to send him a Thank you note and his email didn't go through from his published gmail account.  Too bad, I was going to send him a couple of my books just to Thank him for the great effort he put into this book but now I guess he will have to buy mine.  Give this book some serious consideration. I don't usually post reviews nor do I give out five stars so easy. But this one deserved it. I think you will enjoy the read.  Good book.