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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
HarryT,
One of my triggers for not picking up a non-fiction book is this line. "Congratulations for downloading this book." If I see that, it is almost a guarantee that it is a copy and pasted from the Internet in backwards English.
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I read a lot of non-fiction (history) and I don't think any self-pubbed non-fiction can be good, ever. Non-fiction takes resources; it takes research; it takes skills, not just talent. You can't just churn it out in the garret.
You also have to watch out for putative publishers who are really just fronts for vanity publishing. They tend to clean up the grammar, spelling and punctuation, but that only raises the experience to mediocre at best.