The Paid eBook Review Argument — With the popularity of leaving reviews online for everything from books to consumer goods, more and more consumers are relying on reviews posted on ebook retail platforms — presumably, reviews that were posted by individuals who actually read the books they are reviewing — to give them a head's up on which books are deserving of a five - star rating.
Not exact matches
And since every new book needs
reviews, and a Goodreads Giveaway is free, it
pays to make early and regular use of this important promotional tool (btw, this is for print books only, no
eBooks allowed).
StoryBundle offers a «
pay what you want» payment method for bundles of DRM - free
eBooks, with each bundle comprised of a group of excellently
reviewed eBooks from a specific genre.
A report by Gartner Research points out a very disturbing trend in the
ebook industry: fake or
paid reviews.
John Locke, who set the record for the most
eBook sales with Donovan's Creed, admitted to
paying for
reviews!
Did John Locke sell 1 million
ebooks by
paying for
reviews?
You'll be able to
pay by credit card and can choose whether you'll mail Pacific Book
Review your physical book or email a PDF of your
ebook.
A new report by Gartner Research points out a very disturbing trend in the
ebook industry: fake or
paid reviews.
-LSB-...] can increase visibility and get people talking about your
eBook, including cover reveal parties, blog tours,
reviews of your
eBook on blogs and websites, and
paid -LSB-...]
Additionally,
pay attention to their advertising prices, whether they do
ebook reviews, offer guest blogging opportunities or take PR pitches.
In addition to buying
reviews, Locke also
paid the reviewers to download his.99
ebooks so that the
reviews showed up on Amazon as «verified purchases.»
I'm about to self - publish my first
ebook via Kindle Direct and it would never occur to me to
pay for a
review or try to influence reviewers.
If you can
pay enough people to buy your.99
ebook and
review it positively, and crack one of Amazon's bestseller lists, readers are going to check it out.
Review by: Seraphim Press on June 09, 2013: (no rating) You may curse and stomp and rip out your hair at all the tedious little steps it takes to pre-format your document to upload to meatgrinder, but Mark Coker leads you step - by - step (with pictures) through the process and, even without meatgrinder, you'd be
paying some
ebook formatter big bucks to make these changes FOR you so you might as well learn now and avoid those bugaboos in the future.
In John Locke's
ebook about selling a million
ebooks, he neglects to mention his secret weapon: 300
paid book
reviews from www.paidbookreviews.org
John Siracusa's epic
reviews of Mac OS X are just the right length for an
ebook — and readers are willing to
pay for it.