Review: Indies Should Buy This Book
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 2, 2012
Don't let the horrible tie-dyed cover fool you, this book is not full of schlock. I've read several self-publishing books recently and this is one of the best so far. It's chock-full of very helpful and timely information which is organized in a natural way. The writing is good though the book had more than its fair share of typos. I find that to be lazy in a book that talks about hiring editors and having five levels of proofers. Sure, typos happen. But the number of them - especially mixing up "you" "your" and "you're" - got a little distracting.The other weird quirk about this book is the formatting. On the font size setting I normally read at, the text was so tiny as to be unrecognizable as text. I can't imagine what it would have looked like at the smallest setting. I had to set it up two times bigger just to make it readable, and even then it was just barely so. One more step up in size and it became super-jumbo. Again, for a book written by someone purporting to be an expert, this seems strange.Honestly, this book would have easily received 5 stars but for the following:* Too many typos* Horrible cover* Weird font issuesAnd the only reason I knocked a star off for these seemingly minor quibbles is because this is a book telling people to avoid those very things. Otherwise, an excellent book!If this review gave you information that was helpful, please feel free to click the YES button below!