First, I think it's wonderful that any author can publish ebooks directly through Amazon, bypassing those publishers who're still sitting on the fence, dithering about releasing any novels in ebook format - any format.
For example, Daniel G Jennings has been struggling to get "Robots Just Want to Get Paid", a novelette, published for some time. Among other things, it's rather libertarian in bent and that is a problem with many publishers.
However, again using RJWtGP as an example, Amazon's DTM ebook publishing can be a disaster! (I bought a copy after reading about it, and his discovery of self-publishing freedom through Amazon, in The Libertarian News.) Given the plethora of syntactical and grammatical errors in this *SHORT* novelette, I wonder if the publishers rejected it more because of it's libertarian leanings *OR* because of all the mistakes it contained. Yes, it only cost a dollar, and the author has discussed, in an email exchange with me, how he considers it a 'work-in-process' and that corrections will be made as time goes by, but still, the ease with which a poorly-written story could become a 'published work' (and by published work, I mean it is truly published by Amazon) is - at this time - appalling!
Derek
I'm sure that my gentle and uplifting criticism will be taken in their spirit and that in a short time RJWtGP will be a worthwhile purchase and read. And for those of you who think that supporting auctorial efforts through purchase of 'early-alpha' E-ARCs makes sense, please feel free to cough up the $1 fee for this book - presuming you are of libertarian pursuasion.
