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I took a quick look at your ebook - $50 seems pretty steep, particularly when I can't view more than the first page, and I don't know how many pages there are. A table of contents would definitely help know what the book's about.

Also, it's confusing how you've laid out the "You're doing it Wrong" parts. I'd merge them, call it "You're doing it wrong if..." (the if... is important) and make it all bullet points or else separate the points a bit to make them stand out more (I'm not 100% sure you can do that last bit in Kindle though).

There are other things, but those are the two that I immediately noticed.



Thanks! I have a TOC -- just need to figure out how to make that available on Amazon.

The book is very short, perhaps 20-30 pages. I make no apologies about that. The point is to be direct and provide lots of instruction. So if you're looking to pay for your book depending on it's weight, not it's usefulness, probably not for you. I know some of the best hacking books I've owned have been short. I'm hoping to make this book more like them and less like those huge encyclopedia monsters I have on my shelf.

For anybody who wants to see some sample pages and the TOC, just shoot me an email. Happy to help out. Also for more book information, check out the landing page I made for it, http://tiny-giant-books.com/scrummaster.htm


The landing page is definitely a better place to send people to than Amazon, at least until you get the TOC issues sorted out. And you probably want to expand the book description on Amazon too - currently it's only a couple of sentences.




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