Sentences with phrase «about paid book reviews»

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There's been a lot of talk about paid book reviews since the New York Times ran an article by David Streitfeld this weekend about Todd Rutherford (a.k.a. «The Publishing Guru») and the business he started selling reviews to authors.

Not exact matches

Amazon has been paying attention to reviews that complain about poor quality and, starting February 1, will add a warning label on these books reading «several validated quality issues» and asking the publisher to fix the problems.

Although that approach violates most of what they taught us in media classes, way back when, paid book reviews have become mainstream, if not exactly something about which authors (the one in the know, anyway) would boast.

In a move that can easily be categorized under «omg it's about freakin'time» (considering Amazon posted its first - ever book review twenty years ago), the largest bookstore in the world has finally taken the first steps in combating fake reviews by suing three pay - for - review sites that operate out of California.

With so many books in the marketplace, it's helpful to have people saying nice things about yours in particular, but understand that just because you pay for a review, that doesn't mean it will be positive, so be certain your book is where you want it to be before you submit it for review.

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.

On the issue of not paying for a book review, perhaps it wasn't clear that I am talking specifically about paying for Amazon reviews.

In fact, it's not even well - known in the author community that paid book reviews exist, and even less is known about the value of such reviews.

Instead of spending all that money on paid book reviews, think about what Erin Keane wrote near the end of her Salon article:

About the only time I pay no attention to the cover is if I have read killer reviews on the book, from sources I trust, and then I don't pay attention.

I've been fascinated with this subject, and even wrote a little about it but I've never met an author who paid for a book review.

Are you looking for paid book review services about your books?

I came across this article today on NYT.com about a entreprenurial guy who gets paid to write online book reviews: Link Here

One of the key concerns readers have had at both Amazon and Goodreads, and will undoubtedly continue to cause concern under the new partnership, is the validity of book reviews in a climate where accusations have been hurled about paid reviews, trolls, and worse.

While some authors take to their social media outlets to spread the word about their books, and other writers choose to enlist professional public relations firms to advertise, still others have lately opted to go for a less scrupulous option: paying for book reviews.

When authors pay to get their books reviewed, they don't pay to have a good review published, but only an honest opinion about their work.

Dear indie authors, in the past days I heard an upsetting opinion about submit book for review, or rather, about submit book for paid book reviews.

Even if you can afford to pay hundreds of dollars for Kirkus to review your book about hiking in Colorado, it's arguably doubtful your readers will care.

What about paying Kirkus reviews to read your book and write a glowing review that you can interject into your book cover?

I'm thankful for the industry watchers... like during this week's news about paying for book reviews.

So here, in opposition to events in which authors have paid to have good reviews of their books posted — or posed as others in order to praise their own work — we're now talking about Jackson fans attacking the book they don't like.

What is so morally wrong about an author paying an experienced book reviewer to review their book and post the review in the relevant places, such as their own book blog if they have one and on Amazon, Goodreads, and so on?

Book reviews are considered very good publicity and no one complains about authors paying for advertising space on relevant websites or in magazines.

As an owner of BlueInk Review, a paid book review service, I was happy to see your explanation about credible reviewers not promising good reReview, a paid book review service, I was happy to see your explanation about credible reviewers not promising good rereview service, I was happy to see your explanation about credible reviewers not promising good results.

Sometimes they're only recommending a book because someone paid them to, according to a long but fascinating new article about bookstores in The Boston Review!)

You may have heard about US FTC guidelines regarding paid book reviews, and sharing these online.

I didn't add the information about how both publications have different options for self - published books because I didn't want to take it into a «should you pay for a review» discussion.

Darcie Chan, above, used paid reviews to get the word out about her book, and it worked.

If you want to know what the meanest reviewer on the block will say about your book, then pay for a Kirkus review, and you'll receive a rather terse and sloppy review.

That's why when my self - published Book Publicity 101 student Teresa Villegas asked me what I thought about paying for a Kirkus Indie review, I encouraged her to take the chance.

You'll give us as much information possible about your book, choose whether you want standard service (7 - 9 weeks) or express service (4 - 6 weeks) and pay for your review (standard service $ 425, express service $ 575).»

These reviews mustn't be false, because honest reviews, also paid, always drive readers to discover more about a book.

To clarify — since this can get confusing — with blog tours (or with radio or TV tours), publishing houses aren't paying bloggers (or radio or TV hosts) to cover a book; we're paying someone to schedule the tour: finding blogs that would be appropriate for the book, arranging dates for the reviews / interviews, reporting back to us about who is running what when, etc..

While it is common practice for imprints under the Big Five publishing conglomerate to pay for book reviews, I believe that paying for a book review would be the kiss of death if discovered about the vast majority of authors.

Amazon has absolutely no rules about how much you advertise your book to readers (as long as this does not include any reviewers being paid to review your book), and in fact, they want you to advertise it as much as you can, so readers buy books from their website!

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

For example, if you're paying for coverage in print outlets, if your name and book is mentioned once as a small part of a large article, rather than a feature story or review about your book, do you pay the same amount?

Then someone launched a book called «How to travel for free» and then every trip, blog and review was about how much the blogger is getting paid for it.

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