I am in two minds about this book.

I should point out that I get very skeptical when I see titles like this. I did check and as far as I can tell it is not PLR or a re-labelled wikipedia article, which immediately places it above 90% of this type of book. The second thing I tend to check is the sales rank of the author’s fiction or non-self help titles. In this case the fiction books are at 500,000, and most seem to have one 5-star review from the same reviewer (remember, we focus solely on the UK site here). Always remember if it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

Starting with the good then, and what is very good is the ebook’s look. The formatting is clearly readable, the presentation effective, and there are a lot of authors and publishing houses who should take notes. The cover is good, clear and easily readable even in thumbnail. If the message of the book is that presentation is important, then it certainly practices what it preaches.

So what is this book about? Basically how to market ebooks to make money.

First, and I will say this upfront, the book is not aimed at fiction authors. On the very first page it tells you that the author “hired a writer to write my first book”, and then published using KDP. It also tells you that the ebook needs to solve a problem, and gives various non-fiction and self-help titles as suggestions. This is purely about finding a niche and writing a book to fill it, so if you have written a novel or something read for pleasure this is not as useful.

This book is designed purely for those who want to use KDP as easy profit. The title is absolutely accurate – it tells you how to make money from Kindle books, just not necessarily the ones you’ve written.

Given how fast he suggests churning ebooks (7 days to cover ordering, writing and release is mentioned) it might also be very difficult for those who want to write their own books to follow his advice.

Could this strategy make a marketer a lot of money on Amazon? Yes. Could this work for an author? Less so. While this might be a good book for beginners, most of the advice here will already be familiar to more established authors or members of established groups. After 15 odd years in the publishing industry, I have to agree with some of his points. On the flip side of that though, similar advice is available for free online.

In conclusion I’d give it a reluctant three stars, but would I have spent money on it if it wasn’t free on Amazon? Probably not, and for a fiction author I think it would be wasted.