You need to pick five to six in-print books that your book competes with. List the books and explain why yours fills a hole the other books don't, or yours is better that they are. 

Here are a few of the rules.

• List the name of the book, the author, the publisher, the publication date, the number of pages and the price.
• Make sure the book is current and all of the books are top sellers within your topic.

Here is an example from The Singles Guide to Home Ownership

There is no book on the market directed specifically to singles, although the following books address some of the topics that singles need to know.

A Home of Your Own, Sylvia Porter, Avon books, 1989, 300 pages, $17.95 offers advice on real estate agents, mortgages, closing costs and other information single buyers need. I found this book incomplete and fairly shallow.

Trips and Traps When Buying a Home, Robert Irwin, McGraw- Hill,1990, $15.95, 270 pages is a good general book that is accurate and offers advice on buying. It is not, however, geared for singles and does not include much of the information that singles need to know.

The Home Buyer's Guide, Edited by Bill Alder, Fireside, Simon & Schuster, 1989, 310 pages $19.95,  This is a general interest book that contains some of the information every single buyer must know, but it does not have enough depth to be really useful.

Housewise: The Smart Woman's Guide to Buying and Renovating Real Estate for Profit, Suzzane Bradshaw, Harper and Row, 1987, 180 pages, $15.95.

This is a helpful book for the woman who wants to buy and sell real estate. Again it does not specifically address the problems of singles.

Home for the Family of One, however, addresses alI of the emotional and technical real estate problems that affect singles in the market place, and offers a common sense guide to searching for, finding, making an offer, and financing their own home.

 Assignment

1. Go on Amazon. Com, search for your subject and see what books come up. Sometimes you will find several hundred. 
2. Remember though, you are looking for the latest and the best selling. Amazon has a rank for every book, look at that. Any book that rates 5000 or below is selling fairly well. Be sure and copy the descript for the book and the reviews. You will use that for your comparison.
3. Write a description for about five books following     the style above. Be sure and point out why yours is better or contains some information the book you are describing doesn't have