Sentences with phrase «of crappy books»

Yes, there are a lot of crappy books out there, being downloaded by readers who end up bitching because they got a book for free (or paid for it, depending on the user.

Because of the ease of getting on Amazon, there are plenty of crappy books available.

As a relatively smart indie writer and marketer of her own (non-genre) books, no matter how hard I work to get the word out on Amazon, the mountain of crappy books is too high to climb over at this point.

A As an agent, I read an unbelievable amount of crappy books.

As an agent, I read an unbelievable amount of crappy books.

In fact, most «authors» on Amazon are really actually internet marketers who outsource hundreds of crappy books and try to cheat readers out of their money.

Sadly, a lot of crappy books have 30 or 40 5 - star ratings whereas my books have a few.

Yes, not everyone is going to buy in immediately due to the years of resentment Roman has from years of crappy booking, but even as a Heel this is important to the development of a character.

Not exact matches

Theatres were thus required to take part in a process called block booking, where they had to purchase a bunch of crappy movies if they wanted the good ones.

In his much recommended recent book The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Horowitz explicates «the Law of Crappy People,» a gem of business wisdom unearthed by the consistently interesting blog Farnam Street recently.

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.

Of course there are crappy self - published books; there are also crappy traditionally published books.

And go after the thousands of talentless hacks who have tarnished your reputation over the last twenty years or so, by self - publishing a mountain of crappy, inept books, both in print and / or digitally (Amazon is nothing but a newer, bigger iUniverse).

Smashwords is well known in the publishing community for their crappy books, the vast majority of them have never even been read.

Sometimes we get shocked when a crappy book (say, for example, Fifty Shades of Gray) suddenly starts showing up everywhere — but it showed up because, in spite of the boring story and fourth - grade writing ability, the book SOLD.

If it's obviously a crappy book, and no reasonable person would buy it, but it keeps sticking at the top of the Amazon charts — for months — it seems reasonable to guess that spammy tactics must have been used.

Often, the simple publishing package of $ 2K or so * might * be reasonable, but since they're farming out the book design, most of these hybrid publishers will give you crappy book design (which is the MOST important thing to get right!).

On occasion I have «burned» myself when buying eBooks via Kobo, relying on their suggestions for books I already read (I almost exclusively deal with Kobo because they are one of the main players, have a big international presence, and unlike Amazon use ePub, so I can use Adobe Digital Editions to read it on non-Kobo devices), causing me to buy books that I ultimately found rather crappy (pardon my french).

This is the book writers would use after writing the «CFD» («crappy first draft»), that I - have - all -80,000-words-in-a-Word-doc-and-they-all-suck stage where every single book in the history of books has started out.

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.

I devoted an entire series of videos based on crappy book covers.

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).

If you wrote a crappy book, with a bad cover and a passive blurb and opening sample, no amount of shouting into the noise will help your book sell.

And trust me, they've tried to create bestsellers with ads and hype and lots of promotion, only to have the crappy book sit in huge stacks and never sell.

These are my opinions about some crappy books on the market right now; however, none of the comments are meant to be malicious, or create any harm whatsoever to the publishers.

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.

Some crappy books aren't discovered until after the sample portion, but 98 % of writers of crap can't hide the fact for that long.

In a response to Jacqueline Dooley about the «crappy books,» Hugh encourages the fair share of the trade by bypassing her concerns with competition.

My partner and myself have researched the plethora of advice sites and found many misleading statements and old information based on a blip in digital activity (i.e some silver bullet to make that crappy book sell big!)

Presumably, so long as I avoid certain pitfalls of self - publishing (improper editing, crappy cover design, and lazy marketing), the only big disadvantages of going indie would be visibility: hurdles to jump to get brick - and - mortar locations to stock the title, and to get Amazon and other online retailers to stick the book cover somewhere noticeable (Hugh Howey is a very convincing pseudo-advocate for self - publishing).

I get stuck when folks use the «well then we have to compete with all the crappy books out there» line of thinking.

This move makes perfect sense from Amazon's perspective: under the previous pay - per - download model, I could split one of my novels into twenty separate «books,» invite all my friends to borrow each book through KOLL (or download it through KU) and make money on every single download, while providing very little value to the readers and clogging up Amazon's system with crappy, five - page - long books.

Even worse, if they see the Awesome Indies seal of approval on a bunch of crappy looking covers, they are going to start associating the seal with crappy books of low or questionable quality.

Actually, if it weren't for a niggling accelerometer bug, a crappy on - off switch and book store that's all in French, it would be a decent bit of kit.

The Beach may have given SE Asia's beaches a bad name (by the way the book is far superior than the crappy Leo movie, which is usually true of any book made into a movie, but in this case it's just more true) but I can assure you that you're more likely going to run -LSB-...]

The Beach may have given SE Asia's beaches a bad name (by the way the book is far superior than the crappy Leo movie, which is usually true of any book made into a movie, but in this case it's just more true) but I can assure you that you're more likely going to run into the beach of your dreams before you run into any self - exiled groups of deranged backpackers who spend their days taking hallucinogens and killing off their fellow villagers (although it's a big region, you never know).

And here comes all of your bulk AGW science and wrong assumptions IMHO bought in by crappy AGW books.