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.
In short, bloggers everywhere are pulling their hair out because their inboxes are flooded
with crappy books they don't want to read.
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.
------------- PS — if you liked this post, then you'll definately, probably like my new
book: Parenting: Illustrated
with Crappy Pictures
PS — if you liked this post, then you'll definately, probably like my new
book: Parenting: Illustrated
with Crappy Pictures
My second
book, Marriage: Illustrated
with Crappy Pictures, comes out in 12 days.
Her upcoming
book, Parenting: Illustrated
with Crappy Pictures (March 26th), is available for pre-order here.
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.
Had I been able to self - publish so easily, and had so many people been telling me what a great idea it was to skip the commercial publishers and go straight to e-publishing... well, it would mean I had some
crappy books out there
with my name on them, and that thought makes me cringe.
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).
Yes, I know you can read any
book on Amazon
with a free reading app for any device, but even if you've got a
crappy Sony e-reader, that's what you want to use.
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.
«I won't buy a
book with a
crappy cover, and I am finding I won't buy an e-
book with one either.
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.
In a response to Jacqueline Dooley about the «
crappy books,» Hugh encourages the fair share of the trade by bypassing her concerns
with competition.
No pricing strategy will help sell a poorly written, poorly edited
book with a
crappy cover.
There are
crappy books published on the traditional side as well, so you'll be competing
with «
crappy books» just by putting your pen to paper and writing, editing and attempting to publish.
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.
I get what you're saying and respect it, but it is a little disheartening because now we have to compete
with all those people who have half - hearted,
crappy books that never would've made it traditionally.