Not exact matches
Overall the
reviewers are extremely positive about this first novel; Booklist and
Library Journal give it starred reviews, with
Library Journal concluding that the «spare, elegant language, taut emotion, and the crystal - clear ring of truth secure for this debut work a spot on
library shelves everywhere.»
So start small, build up to bigger
reviewers, then run an ad in a
journal that gets sent to
libraries featuring your books and your excellent, credible reviews (even so, personally, I probably wouldn't do that for most of my books... simply because the readers who buy cheap books on Kindle aren't the same buyers who go to
libraries to read books).
One of the pleasures of being a book
reviewer and a librarian is that I review ebooks for Library
Journal, one of the trade publications that serves, well, of course,
libraries.
Library
Journal has been reviewing ebook - only titles in their Xpress Reviews online since July 2011 (full disclosure: I am one of their
reviewers), but
libraries need more resources in order to integrate ebook ordering into collection development.
An interesting analogue is that being conducted in the scientific world where the producers of knowledge (researchers and peer
reviewers) object to intermediaries (scientific publishers) raising
journal rates to astronomic rates to resell the producers» work back to science
libraries.