This Makes Sense?

To say that in order for a book to make it in the marketplace it has to blessed by a traditional publisher doesn’t make any sense in 2009.

Eliyzabeth Yanne Strong-Anderson ~ Birth Control Is Sinful In The Christian Marriages And Also Robbing God Of Priesthood Children!!
From: Author House ~ $135.00!!

Michael Szymczyk ~ Toilet The Novel
From: Author House

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"This Makes Sense?" by TeddyPig was published on December 8th, 2009 and is listed in eBook Commentary.

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Comments on "This Makes Sense?": 7 Comments

Rebecca A wrote,

Delurking to say there is a look inside on the Amazon site of the Birth Control book. The chapter titles all have exclamation marks or question marks, usually of the double or triple variety!! In looking at page one of chapter one I found a new useful form of punctuation, >>. Is it supposed to represent a longer pause than a period? Of course she avoided the whole issues of when to use uppercase letters, by using all uppercase.

Link | December 8th, 2009 at 9:45 am
TeddyPig wrote,

Except for “and also” in the title I could not find any lower case letters.

Link | December 8th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Angelia Sparrow wrote,

At least her self-published stuff won’t do too much harm. Mass-market books, like Mary Pride’s THE WAY HOME, those ruin the lives of millions of families.

Link | December 8th, 2009 at 11:47 am
TeddyPig wrote,

Well I don’t know what “harm” it could do being that it is for sale for $135.00 it’s not like a ton of people are going to buy it.

My thing about showing all this is after an author spends a ton of money “Vanity Publishing” with Harlequin or Thomas Nelson or whatever shell company Author House is using… Sure you get on Amazon right? But… Would you want to have your book sold next to THAT on the Author House listings?

Which is just about what happens if you ever roam the Internet looking at this crap.

Everything gets sorta mishmashed in together and then presented with every other type of cheap junk Author House or their affiliates has spewed forth.

Link | December 8th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Shayla Kersten wrote,

WTF? Okie dokie… Theres some strange critters out there!

Link | December 11th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
TeddyPig wrote,

I just keep these books in mind whenever people start defending Author House or Publish America as the level of class they are peddling and that makes any debate null and void in my mind.

Link | December 11th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Tired Book Buyer wrote,

Oh wait! At least you are not local to them. An author from the area took out commercials for this one:

http://www.authorhouse.com/Bookstore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=62950

http://www.amazon.com/Wrestling-Tar-Baby-Smoke-Cigarettes/dp/1438987714

Did I mention the book is 80 pages?

The commercial, while not bad as far as local commercials go, still makes me want to spork myself.

Link | December 12th, 2009 at 12:23 pm