Does Amazon let customers preview them?. I don’t know how to tell if they are any good
I use a kindle / Amazon and preview other books but not sure how all of it works. Fortunately my wife’s a tetchy and doing most of the preliminary work for me.
She finds lots of good reading in the 99 cent section.
We started the used bookstore in our town years ago so have played in the business for a while. Others in our family are writers doing quite well
Finding a good read is always tough as far as I’m concerned.
Bookbub.com will send you an email daily with cheap to free books through various sellers (amazon, Google, b&n). If you own a kindle, they have a lending library for prime subscribers. If you don’t have a kindle, amazon has free reading apps including cloud reading.
You asked if Amazon lets you preview the books.
If you purchase you have the right for a refund. If you get one on a free day, what’s the difference?
I’ve put up 12 books, l0 non-fiction and two fiction, with two more on the way. I’m a retired journalist but previously I would never have written a book because you would never get it published. This way it’s pick ‘em up and lay ‘em down. You do your print version at CreateSpace. That too is easy and free.
“Does Amazon let customers preview them?. I don’t know how to tell if they are any good”
Yes you can read some of the book right on the Amazon web site. Amazon’s writer business model seems to be to give a book away to get it established with some reviews before the charges are implemented. There are services that you can subscribe too that will send you the free titles in your areas of interest on a daily basis. Even when you do not like a book it is a lot easier to have paid a couple of dollars for it than to have gone to the bookstore and laid out $25