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GtrsRGr8 · 06-29-2017, 01:41 AM

I'm putting this post on this thread because of concerns that the company might be considered a self-pub.

I'm going out on a limb here. Previous posts that I have made of ebooks from companies like this one seem to have gotten panned a lot.

The book comes from BookBoon. It is a company that seems to be in the mold of companies like TradePub, an outfit with which you may be more familiar.

The book is Where You May Get it Wrong When Writing English: A Practical Guide for Students, Teachers and Professionals, by Leon Barkho. It has a stated 219 pages, but the content is a little less than that; see below. Best of all, it is free.

The book has no ratings that I can find--usually a kiss of death as far as my posting is concerned. But what it does have--that I've never run across before in the books that I've looked for for the purpose of posting on MobileRead--is a peer review. A peer ("peer" in this context meaning someone who has equal or better credentials than the author, in the subject under consideration in the book) review is usually reserved for academic-type journal articles, mainly, but rarely, it seems, for books. This book apparently received a favorable opinion (page 3).

BookBoon definitely seems oriented toward business professionals. I got my account years ago, however, by simply being the proprietor of a used book business. So it shouldn't be hard to qualify for an account (which you will need to download their books), if you don't have one.

Look at author Barkho's books, distributed by Amazon, and you will notice that they are all what I consider very expensive. This title is available there beginning at $68.03. An anomaly: this is the 2011 edition, where the one from BookBoon is stated as being published in 2016, and being a first edition. I suspect that the only change are in the advertisements in the book.

Yes, there are advertisements throughout the book. But we can handle those, right? I mean, we get them thrown at us all of the time on the Internet. BTW--that reduces the usable content of the book to quite a bit less than the 219 pages.

http://bookboon.com/en/where-you-may...-english-ebook.

06-29-2017, 01:41 AM	#968
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	I'm putting this post on this thread because of concerns that the company might be considered a self-pub. I'm going out on a limb here. Previous posts that I have made of ebooks from companies like this one seem to have gotten panned a lot. The book comes from BookBoon. It is a company that seems to be in the mold of companies like TradePub, an outfit with which you may be more familiar. The book is Where You May Get it Wrong When Writing English: A Practical Guide for Students, Teachers and Professionals, by Leon Barkho. It has a stated 219 pages, but the content is a little less than that; see below. Best of all, it is free. The book has no ratings that I can find--usually a kiss of death as far as my posting is concerned. But what it does have--that I've never run across before in the books that I've looked for for the purpose of posting on MobileRead--is a peer review. A peer ("peer" in this context meaning someone who has equal or better credentials than the author, in the subject under consideration in the book) review is usually reserved for academic-type journal articles, mainly, but rarely, it seems, for books. This book apparently received a favorable opinion (page 3). BookBoon definitely seems oriented toward business professionals. I got my account years ago, however, by simply being the proprietor of a used book business. So it shouldn't be hard to qualify for an account (which you will need to download their books), if you don't have one. Look at author Barkho's books, distributed by Amazon, and you will notice that they are all what I consider very expensive. This title is available there beginning at $68.03. An anomaly: this is the 2011 edition, where the one from BookBoon is stated as being published in 2016, and being a first edition. I suspect that the only change are in the advertisements in the book. Yes, there are advertisements throughout the book. But we can handle those, right? I mean, we get them thrown at us all of the time on the Internet. BTW--that reduces the usable content of the book to quite a bit less than the 219 pages. http://bookboon.com/en/where-you-may...-english-ebook. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 06-30-2017 at 02:34 PM.