One such third party book review source is
professional book review publications whose primary readership is mostly composed of booksellers and librarians who are looking to stock books that would be read by many.
Most major
book review publications like Kirkus or Publisher's Weekly will require a galley thirty or even ninety days before your book is published.
In addition, those industry reviews will carry more clout with the book's target audience than a purchased review from a
generic book review publication or site.
Also the various major
book review publications which review law and government - related titles on occasion (and I often pick up something through these that I miss elsewhere.
It wasn't until a decade or so later that my daughter came to work for me as my Managing Editor, and then my wife eventually began to review books for two of our
monthly book review publications (MBR Bookwatch & Children's Bookwatch).
Next on the docket is submitting your book to a multitude of different (offline)
book review publications.
The Managing Editor decides which review will go into which of our nine monthly
book review publications.
Up to that time, printing
our book review publications was the single biggest monthly expense by far.
While I started out with print editions of
our book review publications, when we switched over to on - line editions of those same publications I was relived of an enormous monthly printing expense, — and never received a single complaint from the publishing industry.