Review: Easy to understand insight into manipulating Amazon's search feature
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 1, 2014
I'm glad I read this book.  It had me laughing at times, because as someone who is an avid reader and reviewer, I felt it gave me a lot of insight into how the AUTHOR end of the whole eBook/Amazon phenomenon was working, and I appreciated that.  In fact, I might go as far as to say that this book might be better for readers than writers!He gives a lot of links to various resources that are helpful, and there's just a lot of links.  There's some tips thrown in with the links as well, such as how to keep from getting banned from Amazon when posting links.There are some rather unethical tips in the book, such as buying reviews.  It's good to be aware of these things, but I caution writers not to go that route, because I would imagine that Amazon would set up traps for catching it, and it is certainly against their rules.I'm not sure if one could really make six figures by manipulating the Amazon search and review process, but I do think that authors and promoters can benefit from knowing a lot of these things.  I almost see parts of this book as a sort of blackhat SEO for Amazon E-Books.It's easy to read and shouldn't take anyone that long.The writing was generally good and the book was fairly well edited. There's screenshots to help illustrate points.I do encourage authors to really read Amazon's TOS as well as this book, and be careful not to get themselves banned by following some of the more unethical methods of promotion.I was given a copy of this book in electronic format with no further obligation to provide anything but an honest review.