Another "let's get it published asap" book.
929169
If you wish to understand the IBUY Portal, don't count on this book to help you.  I didn't like the style and structure of this book.  I got the sense that this book was just another rush publication with a group of programmers getting together, assigning chapters with desired content and then got down to pulling and writing code.
WROX needs to do a better job of controlling quality and up front planning for their books.  Sorry, but this book shows none of that.  The design of the existing site was mostly crammed into a single chapter.  A decent database diagram was not included and no UML or other diagrams were presented so we could easily understand the Object architecture.  Instead, the documentation was simply a straight lift from sql server table descriptions.  I found myself drawing my own diagrams as I went through the book.  An architect's perspective was desparately needed in this first chapter.
I won't be buying any more WROX books if things don't improve by enforcing good technical writing standards for their publications.
3150983
I love the concept and I have already put the concept into play. Howerever, I thing the 7 hour book could have been told in 4 hours - after a while there was alot of repitition.
2629744
Looks like an interesting book and I'd like to buy it, but it isn't currently available in the format I'm prepared to pay for (eBook). Publishers (and authors) need to realise that there's nothing special about writing or selling books - it's just another branch of entertainment and there are lots of other things vying for my attention (and money) right now. My choice isn't 'buy now or wait until it's available as an eBook' it's 'buy now or not at all'.

I won't wait until it's available - I simply won't buy it; that's my choice - but it's the publisher (and author's) loss.
3289767
It was an ok book, but way to short.  I think the stories are being rushed to sell, so are only getting half the effort to make a really good book.  A little more time spent woud have made a much better book.
4353312
Here is how I imagine the emails from Dan Brown's publisher went before this book came out:
1) "Dan, this is just a pamphlet about global population growth! I know it's an issue you care about, but we agreed on another adventure story!"
-- 6 months go by --
2) "Well, okay, Dan, this is more like the type of adventure we expect from you, but it's only 80 pages long. We can't publish a short story; you need to quintuple the length."
-- 6 days go by --
3) "I see you've combined your 300-page tourist's guide to Florence with the novella you sent previously.  It's an unusual approach, but our deadline is looming and people will probably buy your work regardless of its quality. Thank you."
3147517
I want to share this book with all of my colleagues.  When will it be out in print so I can buy copies for them?
4606187
Another damned anthology.  A money maker to tide things over until he can, if possible, ever release Peace Talks.  I wish he'd either stick a knife in the series and let us all off the hook, or get on with it.  What the hell do I care about snippets?  They don't advance the story at all.
3151872
I will let you folks know when I have finished reading it! Please watch the deadlines on these reviews.....Please? Thank You.
2514802
What can I say. If you are trying to be published you need this book.
1841189
This is not yet a book. It is an idea for a book, even the general outline. What is here is a good idea but now the writer needs to go back and develop each heading into a chapter, do the work of bringing this book to life. It will take time and courage given the topic,( it would require hard work), but I think the idea is original and the result could be well worth the time and effort.

Unfortunately as it stands, this is a prime example of a pet peeve of mine now that pamphlets can be self-published as "Books" and a few pages can be charged for as though they were books (this "book" is 20 pages printed back and front including large print and many blank half pages.)I am sorry I let my curiosity cause me to order this pamphlet. As I said I was hoping for a developed idea, a book.

The information given is so general that it is hard to even tell if it is correct or not.  For example s/he says that home supervision visits by parole officers to supervise Sex Offenders are just to check whether the parolee is at a given address and the officers don't even enter the house although if one insists be cordial and invite them in! (which I guess is why that guy in Calif could kidnap and imprison JCDougard and her two little girls in a shed in his back yard for years without getting caught by officers who were presumably doing home visits for literally years). But I do not believe most home parole visits are that lax.

S/He does go on to write a page or so (again in very general terms) about difficulties of finding a job as a registered sex offender,(money s/he says you need to pay for required therapy sessions, supervision etc)He doesn't mention eating and trying to pay rent, but I imagine that's why so many sex offenders break their conditions and end up "of no fixed address" sleeping under a bridge! I therefore suspect raising money is the main reason s/he wrote the pamphlet.. to make a little money, not so much to get an idea across which a parole office might frown upon anyway.  This is billed as "Volume 1. Future "Volumes" are probably/actually a clever retirement plan unless of course the writer takes the time to develop them into actual "volumes".

The "book" might be sort of a memoir "as seen through the eyes of someone experiencing supervision and the special restrictions required of people on the sex offender registry"  but it fails from that point of view and for the same reason, I also doubt it would be useful as what the title claims it to be...a survival guide for someone new to being supervised on the sex offender registry. Because the "book" is so general and amorphous, it manages to be Neither a book Nor a guide.

It could have been the interesting book I thought I was getting, but I went through this pamphlet in about 6 minutes and found nothing I couldn't have gotten better just by googling the topic. Maybe that's what the writer did and then sold the results as a pamphlet on Amazon!!! Or maybe s/he just reworded and sold the "instructions" s/he was given by a parole officer when s/he came for the first office visit after release. Now THAT would be funny. Maybe the writer is writing from an imagined point of view as a sex offender with some advise. Maybe the writer is actually parole officer, just moonlighting!

In any case I would like to see the writer develope this into a book, the idea is interesting but as it stands, now it is a pamphlet and not yet worth the money. Have courage. Write the book, darn it!!
1267345
I know that this is one of a series about a family, but it just stopped without any closure at all.  It is followed by pages about his new book, Zoo.  He could have added another chapter and given some kind of closure.  How long until he finishes this one??? I am tired of authors stopping in the middle of the action to make you buy another book. They should at least call it, part 1 so you have a choice.

I think I am done with this family if this is the way they are going to be written.
912936
Please note that any 'review' prior to november 16th, 2006 is invalid as the book has only now been shipped.  I made a pre-order a month ago and only today received notice from amazon that it's on its way.  While I don't discourage authors from remarking on their book, nor comments from the online previews, it's important to note that no actual reader has in fact reviewed the book _in hand_.

yes, we're all looking forward to turbogears.  I'm sure I'll love it too, but let's not get carried away just yet.  For the authors to give themselves 5 stars seems unnecessary.  If authors wish to comment, amazon should allow them to do so, but without a star rating.

I'll review again in time, and if I enjoy it I'll up the star rating accordingly.  This is in fact THE POINT of having a star rating, not for authors to make a blog entry.  Therefore this 1 star will balance out the 5 stars made by both authors here.  Otherwise these star ratings lose their usefulness for us, y'know, the paying public.

thanks
4573169
Man, what crap passes off as publishable in this age.  Now there will be 6 year olds playing the knock out game.  At least it is in written form so it won't be have too much of an effect.
810131
I am exhausted! Red Hot Internet Publicity kept bringing up little reminders of things I should do to improve my Website pages, blogs, Amazon pages and more. And I kept writing them down. I filled the inside cover with to-do notes, then margins in the front matter and so it went. And that's just the beginning. Now I have to go back and implement each of them.

I don't believe that because information found in a book is available somewhere on the Web is a valid criticism of a book. Most everything is available somewhere on the Web. But credbility is often a problem. So is the time it takes to put together the parts in a cohesive plan. So is the personal touch. And what good is a book if it doesn't also give the reader the basics so they can easily implement the more advanced stuff?

This author starts at the root of of Internet Publicity and builds on that to help anyone polish their publicity campaign. She knows her stuff. I'm not saying she covers every Internet exigency known to tech experts. I'm not a tech-expert enough to judge that. All I can say is, I've been doing publicity using the Net for a long time and I picked up a heck of a lot of fine tuning and even a basic or two. I'd like to see her write another Red Hot edition specifically focused on Red Hot Internet Publicity for Writers.
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The reviewer is the author of the HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers.
1685509
Book is very good reading. Can we make it pay for itself?  That remains to be seen,  I will write again if we get results.
3206527
The book is what I was expecting. After buying it, I found that the new version of the book is coming soon so I told myself you should have waited. It would be nice if we can get some alerts letting us know this kind of upcoming versions.
3407491
I think not. Not buying.

Until TradPubs get realistic with their ePub pricing they will see the cache of their stable writers sink in the mire of Greed. Sounds like this title isn't that hot - anyway - even split between fan(atics) and non-fan(atics)

Advice?  Michael, Go Indie on your next title!