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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Caveat emptor, January 31, 2002
This book may be an easy read, but at over (...)for just over 100 pages it isn't cheap. As an example of an e-book it drives home the lesson that books need to be edited by real editors: "Cheap and Easy" contains numerous simple errors that would have been corrected by a copy editor. For someone who doesn't know anything about the subject, though, this is a reasonably good introduction, with rather less of the inevitable repetitive empty hype than some of the other how-to books in this field. (But that doesn't mean it doesn't have any meaningless hype. For example: "Right now there is an engineer from Bangalore, India, an architect from Malta, a nurse from Hong Kong, a construction worker from Sweden, an automobile worker from Germany, a homemaker from Salt Lake City, and a school teacher from Italy, who want to read your e-book! Act now and feed the world with your creativity and mark the world with your brilliance!") The general lessons about such things as selling from your own web site are useful. Readers should, though, be prepared for information in the book to become obsolescent; this is a rapidly-changing subject. For example, anyone following the advice in Chapter Three, "How to Publish Your E-book in One Day", will find difficulty registering with the one recommended publishing site, (...), which closed on January 12th 2002. On the next page you might notice that mightywords.com is mentioned as belonging to the parent company Fatbrain.com, but if you go to (...)you will find that it now belongs to (...) and has this discouraging little note at the bottom of its Publisher Information Center page: "We no longer post self-published digital content on our web site." It would have been helpful if the author's commitment to the World Wide Web as a publishing medium had led him to post amendments to the book on a web site, but if you follow the link on the back of the book listed under "Contact Information", (...), you reach (end-January 2002) a temporary page with no information, just a link to another address where you find an advertisement for a two-hour (...)teleseminar.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
quick and dirty, August 18, 2001
Cheap and Easy is packed with quick and dirty tips and pointers. It provides a good starting point for those of us who have written a book, but are clueless how to begin self-publishing. It's a small book, but worth the money. I wish Wayne Perkins would write a more in-depth sequel. Those who buy this book might want to make their next purchase: "How to Publish and Promote Online" by M J Rose and Angela Adair-Hoy, which goes into more depth and contains articles by many successful self-publishers.
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This book will inspire you to act on your desire to write, December 4, 2000
By A Customer
The organization of this book makes it very easy to read and understand. The author knows his subject and shares all with an enthusiasm that is contageous. With a sprinkle of humor Wayne guides and encourages you to do what might have been considered - just too hard.
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