Bad covers, bad editing and generally crappy books don't sell.
In short, bloggers everywhere are pulling their hair out because their inboxes are flooded with crappy books they don't want to read.
We have the wagons filled with authors who think that they are going to break big because they read someone's work that sort of sucked (but who is a household name) and they think, hey, my crappy book doesn't suck any worse than theirs, maybe I'll throw it up on Amazon and see if it finds an audience.
Not exact matches
What if we want to stand up to him, and say, look, buddy, you made us with great big questioning brains, and so we used our brains to question your existence because you
did such a
crappy job with that dumb
book you call the bible trying to convince people you exist.
I
do love to see everything as positive as I can and always, always find beauty and happiness in the smallest things but today... I just feel like crap, so I'll just hang on with my
crappy day, be lazy, maybe read some
book, hopefully get over this damn flu and cold and feel much better tomorrow and more positive.
The storyline in negligible, and doesn't really go anywhere, it feels like if there were four dark sector
books, and then they decided to make a
crappy game adaptation of the fifth.
You might argue that this is because so many people throw their
crappy books up on Amazon without
doing all the work you recommend, and that if one
does all that work, sales are more likely.
Most authors don't know their
book has
crappy formatting until readers comment.
Once you see these
crappy books, then you'll know you're
doing WAY better than you thought.
Regardless of how introverted you are, regardless of how many
crappy book trailers you've seen (don't
do those), video is here to stay, and the sooner you embrace it, the better.
Nobody should tell you you're making bad decisions because you're failing to maximize your profits, and if they
do, (a) they're assholes, and (b) they should probably mention that writing
books is a
crappy way to make money in the first place, so give it all up and go get a real job, sucker.
It's nice to support the success of other authors in your genre; you want to be careful not to share
crappy books (and I'd never ask anyone to
do that: I'll provide a full copy or at least excerpts of the
book so they can check it out before committing).
I look for a certain standard when I read the sample, hope for the best, and if I don't get it, it's more disappointment and irritation than the cheated feeling I get from a
crappy NY / boutique
book.
Crappy books tend to fail, so don't worry yourself so much about it.
However, be careful when lowering the price: don't let readers think you've written a
crappy book.
Self - pub
books, for valid reasons, have a stigma, and reviewers don't want to waste their time reading
crappy books.