Friday, November 10, 2017

What Helen Read #19: October 2017

Each month I think "I wonder if I read more books than Helen?" and of course, the answer is always "no". It's a rare month when I am a more voracious reader than Helen is. She repeatedly gets her read on better than I do. I'm so envious. Right now I'm struggling with a book by one of my all time favorite authors. I bet that's not a problem Helen has.

Here's what Helen read for October.

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

How to spot a fake book on Amazon

I don't know if you've noticed but Amazon has a fake book problem. David Gaughran spoke about it in his article here. I won't rehash all that he has covered but I wanted to go over a couple of points but specifically show an example of how the book looks on Amazon so you can identify it.

Is this book real

Briefly, a fake book is a book powered by bots that crash the Amazon charts and get listed high up in them, pushing legit high selling books off the charts. This happens particularly often on the free charts. Soemtimes they even get to the top of those lists and fake out the people who are buying books.

Tuesday, November 7, 2017