Review: Slapped Together
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 09 17, 2012
I was excited to see that this book was free on Kindle and was going to read through it and then promote it to my following... but I was sorely disappointed. It looks as if the company wanted to gain exposure by publishing a book of their own, only they did a really poor job. The information contained in this book often contradicted itself. Instead of clearly setting forth book marketing tips, it basically listed a slew of marketing information that can be found easily on the internet. Most authors who have researched book marketing online know that that information doesn't always match up; e.g., Don't give your book away for free - tell people where they can buy it... A few pages later: Don't underestimate the power of free...? So which is it?Some of the marketing tactics listed were for cheating the system to raise your rankings. I didn't care for that at all. They also recommended a book via author, however never mentioned the title of the book... I'm sure I could search the authors name, but unless he has only written one book, I won't really know what book they were recommending - not that I would read something recommended in this book anyway.Finally, I can't leave a review without mention the formatting of this book. With the way they formatted it, it was hard to follow. The paragraphs seemed to just run together, which only added to the confusion of the information contained.