Someone posted a thread at
Kboards about another author who has to resort to charging $ 15 to critique people's first 10 pages because she can't afford to pay her pet's medical bill.
Not exact matches
In a very intense thread on the
KBoards, Kindle Unlimited: the scoop, http://www.
kboards.com/index.php?topic=189900.new#new, in response to a post
about concern of how sales would affect rankings of books, I say,
I've been a lurker on
Kboards» Writers Cafe for months now, and the same 3 - 4 people who regularly comment
about the evils of Amazon on EVERY SINGLE Amazon - related thread have sales rankings for their books in the high six - digits.
On the
KBoards forum, some authors talk at great length
about the Brown Bar of Shame (BBOS).
Elsewhere on
KBoards, they complain
about this all the time, but for some reason they seem unable to make the logical leap that page rank does not correlate with sales.
Screen quality is the number - one complaint
about the Oasis on e-reader fan sites such as mobileread and
kboards, where disappointment in the new device is palpable.
The
Kboards Writer's Cafe (a popular forum where indie writers hang out and discuss the industry) is chock full of threads
about the evils and praises of Kindle Unlimited and how something that might have worked in 2012, now doesn't, and on and on, but there is no denying that new authors are coming onto the scene and seeing a lot of success all the time, even in 2016 as they did in 2011 - 2012.
Over on the
KBoards site, in a thread going back to September, there are howls of protest
about this that range from condemning Amazon for changing its terms of service to censorship.
I also have been spending a lot of time around the
kBoards to hear
about other people's experiences.
The
Kboards post that led to her writing three books for authors, talking
about the tactics she's used to grow to a full - time income even without being a huge seller on Amazon or «sticking» there with new releases.
Reposting from
KBoards regarding Note 2
about BN: «Barnes & Noble's Nook store's well - covered collapse appears to be accelerating.
There's a huge thread on
kboards (and lots of discussion in private groups) with indie authors complaining
about not only a possible algorithmic shift, but more concerningly, issues with the accuracy of pages read being reported.
Hugh Howey, in a
Kboards discussion
about reviews, suggests a multiple choice test for reviewers: