Not exact matches
He
also questioned DiNapoli's authority to
review the school's
books, even though the expenses were
paid with city and state funds.
Ostensibly, this includes
reviews from
paid review services such as Kirkus, but
also includes
reviews from anyone to whom the author's
book was gifted, as Amazon considers this a form of compensation.
Reviews are not only the highest compliment you can
pay to an author, they
also help other readers discover and make more informed choices about purchasing
books in a crowded space.
In that regard, I'm experimenting with free and
paid companion workbooks for each course, and
also giving away beta - access to the courses when people buy and
review the
books during launch.
I'm
also a
book blogger, offering honest
reviews, free advice, promotional
book swag, and some
paid professional services through my blog.
Better rankings (so you appear on more «you might
also like» «customers
also bought» lists), better visibility (often the free downloads will help sales of other
books as well as get you
reviews) and higher sales (the majority of people do see a huge jump in sales once the
book goes back to
paid).
To the bad, that
also means more competition for readers and the temptation to game the system by
paying people to post five - star
reviews of their
books.
Not only are they having you
pay for the possibility of having your
book reviewed in their QUARTERLY supplement the focuses only on indie
books, but they are
also trying to get you to
pay to publish through their VOOK line.
A good quality
paid review also offers copy for back of
book, promos and press releases that a free consumer
review probably won't offer, plus when you buy the
review you are buying the rights to the editorial copy.
I am sure you found many
paid book reviews services in your Country, many of them are very expensive and can
also have a price of over 350 dollars.
Shortly after, unscrupulously business - minded authors discovered they could
also pay those same reviewers to spit out one - star
reviews on the title that directly competed with their
books, dropping the overall ratings.
One of my
books also made the reader's choice Top Rated list in three Kindle categories simply because I
paid just a little attention to the Customer
Review section of my Amazon sales page.
You can
also pay them to objectively
review your indie
book and distribute the
review to outlets such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
I'm sure less ethical marketers could go on Fiverr.com and
pay for positive
reviews; however, getting this type of feedback from actual project managers further validates the
book and
also helps sell the
book.
Two other major pre-publication reviewers
also have
paid review programs: ForeWord (see https://www.forewordreviews.com/services/book-reviews/) has two tiers of
paid review «opportunities,» and Publishers Weekly only considers «self - published»
books for a fee (see http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/diy/index.html).
Don't get me wrong, I will be asking friends to
review my
book (I'll be sending them a free PDF copy to read in the hope that they will write me a
review), but I've
also budgeted # 337 for
paid reviews from the following services:
Order my
paid book review services here and show your
book in Italy and Europe,
also!
She
also learned that self - published authors could
pay to have their
book reviewed by some sites.
The
book page itself
also has a note saying it is open for
paid reviews.
Many authors
also hate to
pay a fee to get their
books read, first, and then
reviewed.
Despite this, many authors submit
books with an only expectation: to get
reviewed for free,
also at a cost to do spam against
paid book review websites.
BestThrillers offers free
book reviews but
also avails a $ 99
paid review service that posts
reviews on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
These
reviews mustn't be false, because honest
reviews,
also paid, always drive readers to discover more about a
book.
In some cases I bought three, four, and even five indie
books at a time, announced contests, and
paid to ship these
books to the winners, to help indies gain not just readers, but
also much - needed
reviews.
Also, on a side note, but to me much more critical, and to use your words, how on any planet is it okay for publishers to
pay reviewers to write
reviews of
books they never read?