Something like 100,000, but top 50 in a subcategory... shouldn't say more to make it obvious and be too mean.Dan C. Rinnert said:
I know this shouldn't make me feel good...
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but I saw a novel just now on Amazon with an interesting enough cover (read: female warrior) that I decided to open up the sample. Lo and beyond this 'book' had basically no consistent formatting (most paragraphs had no indentation or space between them, with a few indented at random), no evidence of proofreading or editing and rambling narrative reminiscent of freeform roleplaying on gaming forums.
Gives hope to those of us who care about presentation lol.
Gives hope to those of us who care about presentation lol.
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There's a thread from earlier this weekend that the formating for "Look Inside" for a bunch of books is doing that. Last I saw the thread, there didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to who it was happening to or why. I checked my older title and my brand new one and neither of them fell in, so it's not timing.
Yeah, it is a little bit frustrating that anyone can publish a book without having to show at least the slightest attempt at editing. The slush pile just gets bigger and bigger!
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Looks like I spoke too soon on the formatting part since I checked and this
The book in question still does have an amusing number of typos and hilariously erratic pacing though.
is actually happening to my samples too lol.Caitie Quinn said:There's a thread from earlier this weekend that the formating for "Look Inside" for a bunch of books is doing that. Last I saw the thread, there didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to who it was happening to or why. I checked my older title and my brand new one and neither of them fell in, so it's not timing.
The book in question still does have an amusing number of typos and hilariously erratic pacing though.
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