It’s becoming overrun with half-smart self-apponted
experts.
That devalues the Internet everywhere but it is
particularly damaging to the self-publishing community.
I'm convinced that 90 percent
of the time most people spend trying to learn how to format for the Kindle is
wasted, and in this great age of technology, can be attributed directly to
misinformation on the Internet.
Myths
"MS Word BAD! Anything else GOOD!
Don't believe that one
for one minute!
For one thing, MS Word works
perfectly to create a perfectly-formatted Kindle format file.
For another, there is every
reason to believe that the original Kindle software was designed with MS Word
in mind.
MS Word is the most-used word
processor in the world... why would the programmers desgn for anything else?
Lies
What comes out of the mouths
of many half-smart self-appointed experts who roam the forums, seeking every
opportunity to tell more than they know about any subject.
No matter the subject, they
hop in and confuse the newbies and puzzle those who know better.
I call them
"half-smart" because they know just enough to fool some into
believing them.
They are often prolific posters... sometimes the most active members
of any forum.
This is a major problem in Indie or “self-publishing” forums, where
many half-smart know-it-alls are widely accepted as experts, and their
half-right misinformation is repeated and passed on, to the detriment of the
entire self-publishing community.
"When
in doubt, look intelligent!"
— Garrison Keillor
Video Tape
A well-done video tape looks
so professional that it's easy to be taken in... and I am no exception.
I've spent countless hours
trying to follow some of them only to discover, in the end, that they were done
by slightly more flamboyant half-smart self-appointed experts.
Having gone down that road,
myself, I understand why some of my readers start with such confused
notions.
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