I debated posting this on my blog, but I am not sure I want to bring this fool's attention down upon me
Anyway, I have been sort of following this blog by a guy who claims to want to sell 500,000 ebooks by Christmas. He posted about finally finishing the next 'part' of the book (he seems to be releasing it in novella-sized installments) and in the update he says this:
Part One has now been downloaded or read by some 6,500 people. I just hope that I haven't given them any ideas. And so, as my experiment continues into its third month, I have a total readership of almost 7,000. OK so there are some typos in part one, but I am a passionate guy. I don't have time to read my own book 100 times before I publish. I write, smoke, drink and publish. Battaboom battabing. Typos are for my editor to sort out when I eventually get a publishing deal. If?
He gets a comment about how, as a sole proprietor author type, they actually ARE his problem. And he
responds today with an epic rant, the high point of which was this:
Lastly and most importantly: Can you understand this? TXT U 2MOZ. The world is changing. Are semi-colons and colons so vital anymore? If I write the city of Lindon, do you realise that I actually meant London? Of course you do. So get off your high horse and tell your network of Ebook bloggers to go ind fcuk themselffs.
Umm...wow. I hope he actually does NOT sell 500,000 books, just so this doesn't validate his nasty attitude as being a good business strategy. Anyway, if anybody wants to go
comment to this idiot, feel free