Sentences with phrase «poor quality book»

It is free of the spelling and punctuation errors you often see in poor quality book reports.

Not only that, there are countless horror stories of authors being ripped off by vanity self publishing companies that cost the earth and deliver a poor quality book product that doesn't sell.

The argument I'm about to make is that this situation gives publishers (both self - and non-self) an incentive to market poor quality books (remember the definition of quality I outlined above), that the average available quality of books will fall, and that the overall publishing market will shrink in terms of overall revenue (even though the the number of units sold increases).

We just want to provide a home for the square pegs and new / alternative genres traditional publishers stay away from; although we won't publish poor quality books, we're definitely more open - minded and accepting of topic.

Xlibris, Authorhouse, iUniverse create poor quality books with text crammed together, poorly designed covers, and next to no support for twice the price.

This, even though, when it comes to «quality,» there are still a lot of poor quality books and online articles that are being self - published.

I don't like being called a hack because there's an assumption that it means I'm putting out poor quality books to trick or fool readers.

Self - publishing often leads to publishing of poor quality books.

I had sworn I would never self - publish because I associated with very poor quality books.

Or indeed, why some questionably poor quality books are selected and arriving on local bookstores?

The term self - publisher connotes in some minds poor quality books produced by hostile writing enthusiasts who feel that the publishing establishment has failed them.

Before Kate died, I apologized to her for all the rough treatment and stupid things I did to her (much of which I learned from these other trainers and from the poor quality books that had I read).

Not exact matches

This book is proof that it's possible to enjoy things like tasty treats including fudge and hazelnut chocolate chip cookies without all the refined sugars and poor quality ingredients.

total failure... Can you believe Wenger spent 32 millions on 2 average players (Chambers and Welbeck) and is penny pinching when is sbout real class players?What is in his mind?Pay a fortune in salary for mediocre players live Walcott, Ramsey and Wilshere and have hesitations about increasing Sanchez wages... keeping on books failures like Sanogo... The truth is - I say it for years and years - until the «British core» disapears, we are not going to be succesful.The low quality of British players is dragging the team back.Last time Arsenal was a powerhouse NONE of the first 11 was British.Wanna see how the British quality looks like in a football team - look no further than national sides of England, Scotland, N Ireland, Wales, even Ireland (not British but same style)- all mediocre teams «able» to be defeated by any team coming to mind.And you are asking about Chambers?He is in the same mold like Wilshere,Walcott,Ox,Ramsey,Gibs,Jenkinson - mediocre overpriced and overpaid players.The world is full with hungry, ambitious and skilled players living in poverty and dreaming of moving to the top at any cost or sacrifice (did you see the poor house - if you can call that house, looking more like an old tent - in which Alexis Sanchez grew up?Or Suarez?)

The energy was high, but the quality was lacking, all encapsulated six minutes into the contest by Emre Can getting himself booked for a wild lunge following a poor touch.

But it wasn't until she was in college and read Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools, the Jonathan Kozol book that exposed dramatic disparities in the quality of education between rich and poor communities, that she realized her calling was to be a business administrator in a diverse school district.

Amazon has been paying attention to reviews that complain about poor quality and, starting February 1, will add a warning label on these books reading «several validated quality issues» and asking the publisher to fix the problems.

Part of it is because of the poor - quality reputation that self - published books is slowly eroding.

Plus, you'll get mostly poor quality work, and the work that isn't poor is likely to have been stolen from somewhere, which will open you up to lawsuits when your book is published.

On the book's Kindle purchase page, look for the text «Would you like to report poor quality or formatting in this book?»

Yes, self publishing will lead to the release of more poor - quality books than every before, but anyone who fixates on this fact is missing the bigger, more important picture.

I was with them when they had a poor selection of books, I was with them when the audio quality was horrendous, I was with them when the app would crash every time I paused it.

The books that are desirable to readers bubble up, and the poor - quality books will become invisible.

Don't try to shoot a book trailer using your cellphone, because the poor quality will reflect badly on your book and may even turn readers away.

Just because a book is free does not mean it is of poor quality.

I'd also add that a lot of the female book bloggers who review romance (which is quite a lot of them) have stunningly poor taste when it comes to both literary quality and romantic heroes.

I could pull samples from the 25 top small presses and publishers, showing off their ugly cover designs, to demonstrate what a poor choice these options are to authors (since the cover will be the biggest factor in your book's success, and small presses or services that charge a publishing fee skimp on quality design to make more money for themselves).

The idea that self - published books are primarily of poor quality is about as useful as the idea that no woman can leave the home without a girdle on.

One of the more frustrating truths about self - publishing and libraries is that indie authors have had a hard time getting their books into their own local libraries, as budgets are small and the risk of insult when the book is of poor quality is high.

There is almost an assumption that self - publishing = poor quality or slap dash craft, but there is poor quality and slap dash craft in all books.

Even then, we had to change the system for accepting books for review to lower the number of requests and the chances that our reviewers would have to read poor quality and not suffer abuse.

And after seeing many poor quality self - published books, now I know why.

All the text this article dedicates to poor quality covers and how the majority of the books aren't earning any money is oblivious to the fact that the vast majority of poorly - done titles never even get seen by anyone, because they never stimulate enough sales to be supported by the algorithms, so they can't interfere with discovery anyway.

There are a lot of poor quality indie books — there are also a lot of poor quality «traditional» books as my purchases from Amazon and Waterstones demonstrate.

A lot of readers shy away from Indie Books because many of them are of poor quality with lots of mistakes, no editing and poor storylines.

If your images do not meet these requirements they may reject your book files or warn you that the quality may be poor.

If the book you give away is poor quality, that won't generate sales for the sequels.

There's thousands of books published every year, most are of very poor quality (dare I say crap?)

The fonts are crap Times New Roman, the formatting is all wrong, there is no frontispiece or professional table of contents, the covers are poor quality, made with fuzzy images at far too low a resolution - all hallmarks of someone not taking their time or researching how a good book looks.

People often think that the quality of print on demand books is poor but this is not always the case.

Throughout the infancy and childhood stages of self - publishing, traditional publishing houses, respected newspapers and other media that reviewed books were only too happy to point fingers at the poor quality of self - published work.

I definitely agree that some authors jump the gun and push the button on their book launch way too quickly, sacrificing quality (i.e., poor editing and book cover, no marketing plan, etc).

My major disappointment in self publishing over the past two years has been that after all that work involved in writing and editing and formatting your book, it will probably still look self published because of the poor quality covers inherent from print on demand.

The self - publishing market will even itself out, with the poor quality crap sinking to the bottom and the good stuff rising to the top as one - book authors drop away.

At one point it was possible to spot a self - published book from a mile away, due to not - so - great cover design and poor quality printing.

I can't stress how important that is, because every poor quality self published book gives the industry a bad name.

As the books entered the marketplace, critics decried the poor editorial quality of the books.

For the commenter above who deplored overpriced, poor - quality self - published books at the Kindle Store, all I can say is adapt to it.

That said, a book can have the most gorgeous cover in the world, but if the quality of the writing is poor, a bookstore will pass.

A quickly diminishing stereotype of self - published books is that they are of poor quality.