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Saturday, 17 May 2025

The Book Marketeer Scam

 Why is it a scam?

Money for old rope
On Twitter, rarely a week goes by without me being pestered by people "posing" as book promoters.
Why is it a scam?
In short, you can't prove they have tried to promote the book, even if it doesn't get sales; no more than you can prove they didn't.
Most of the people have no qualifications, other than a laptop. Many of the ones I got hassled from were from Nigeria, and had no sense of writing.
To show what I mean, the top-ranked University in Nigeria is ranked lower than 800 in the world, which is as good as a 5th grade school in the USA.
Why should I pay a person to promote my work when I was doing it for over 15 years? They may know sites I don't, but years ago, I added my eBook content to so many sites I can't recall their names

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