Sentences with phrase «of paid book review»

On that page, you'll find several kinds of paid book review services at very different rates, namely:

A few weeks back the New York Times ran a piece on the inherently dubious business of paid book reviews.

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A small price that I have paid for the privilege of writing book reviews for First Things is that I have ended up reading four of Richard Dawkins» books.

Note: While I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher, I am not paid for reviews.

Matthew Miller, in the book reviewed, thinks it possible to bring thoughtful Democrats and Republicans together to work out the intricate set of compromises that would provide and pay for the large - scale programs that are both needed and possible.

Note: While I did receive a complimentary copy of this book for review, I was not paid by the publisher or author to review and feature it.

While I did receive a copy of this book to review, I was not paid to write a review nor was I asked to only write a positive review.

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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.

We know lots of paid review sources that are fully legit, such as Kirkus, City Book Review, and Publisher's Weekly for indie aureview sources that are fully legit, such as Kirkus, City Book Review, and Publisher's Weekly for indie auReview, and Publisher's Weekly for indie authors.

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.

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.

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).

Although I haven't paid much attention to reviews on either site, my impression has been that Goodreads offers fairly considered and balanced observations, while Amazon, more often, offers either blatant adoration of a book or a flippant rejection, all in one sentence.

People investigated Locke's claim and it started a FIRESTORM of controversy because it turns out he not only paid people to buy his book, but paid for 5 - star reviews.

Not all of them are worth paying for and some require 10 + reviews on a book before they'll accept your request.

Hi... I love the idea of a «street team... one question: Did they have to agree to pay for the book on Amazon so they could leave a review.

No one will leave review for free if he does nt know a book from huge promotion that was made by TV, internet and etc wher agency paid a lot of money.

Literary Agent Undercover is only for authors who understand the benefits of traditional publishing: no financial risk because someone else is paying for the privilege of publishing your book; a higher quality product thanks to a top - notch editor and cover designer; more profit due to better sales, distribution, and publicity; subsidiary rights opportunities like merchandising, translations, TV, feature film, etc; increased credibility and more book reviews; and the ability to spend more time writing, promoting, and doing what you love.

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.

Echoing what others have said, if this is an author's first book and they don't have strong reviews by trusted readers or a significant sample of their work available, I'll be hard pressed to pay more than $ 2.99.

Places like Kirkus and Midwest Book Review do offer paid review services, but these are handled by trained, professional reviewers who will objectively weigh the merits of yourReview do offer paid review services, but these are handled by trained, professional reviewers who will objectively weigh the merits of yourreview services, but these are handled by trained, professional reviewers who will objectively weigh the merits of your work.

Because of this, I pay way, way more attention to reviews on Goodreads when it comes to deciding whether or not I'm going to buy a book.

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

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).

The reason thousands of authors pay for these reviews is simple — reviews can help sell books.

There is a chapter devoted to Book Reviews with no mention of the extremely important and controversial issue of paid vs. free reviews, and no annotations as to which of those listed charges authors for providing reviews nor how much they Reviews with no mention of the extremely important and controversial issue of paid vs. free reviews, and no annotations as to which of those listed charges authors for providing reviews nor how much they reviews, and no annotations as to which of those listed charges authors for providing reviews nor how much they reviews nor how much they charge.

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Regardless of all this, whether to pay for any sort of book review is the writer's choice.

-LSB-...] paid book reviews, here are links to click on or copy / paste into the address line of your browser.

The «paid review» industry will grow because of the sheer volume of self - published books; the market is inundated with them and judging by the standard of some I've seen, they could well have been written and published within just one week.

By reviewing the product details of the # 1 ranked book, Productivity: Get 10X More in a Day, I could see it was ranked 105,018 in the paid store.

I admit that due to the problems that I had encountered (the lack of common courtesy of free book reviewers, and the expense attached to paid reviews) I started a competitive, genuine book reviewing business.

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.

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 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.

«Professional review writers» are being paid to write five - star reports to push certain books to the top of bestseller lists according to a recent news report from the UK.

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.

Of course paying for consumer reviews is bad practice, but we at Self - Publishing Review offer professional, starred reviews for self - published and indie books at a reasonable rate (from $ 59) and this gets the author a well - written editorial review that they can use on their author profile on Amazon, B&N and Smashwords, for exReview offer professional, starred reviews for self - published and indie books at a reasonable rate (from $ 59) and this gets the author a well - written editorial review that they can use on their author profile on Amazon, B&N and Smashwords, for exreview that they can use on their author profile on Amazon, B&N and Smashwords, for example.

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.

This is the company, elsevier, with spectacular profit rates, whch gets its material (papers, books) which have mostly been produced at public expense (university salaries, public research grants), do very little actual editorial work (one usually has to supply papers charts etc «print ready»), get academic reviewers to review the books and papers free of charge (well, paid for by universities or they do it in free time), depend on journal editors whose time is paid for by (generally publicly funded) universities, then sells the journals to the same universities, sometimes for subscription prices in the thousands of dollars.

Between the mysterious disappearing act that happens quite often with reviews posted to Amazon, the widespread news of authors buying favorable reviews from pay - per - star services, and the scandalous situation with author and reviewer bullying, reading consumers have had a hard time trusting any sort of reader feedback on a book.

NetGalley is like book shopping, except that I pay with my time to write the reviews instead of my money.

This year, Advicesbooks, the website of book reviews and book promotion, has decided to organize the Prize to reward and pay the best book we'll read in 2015.

Here's one easy rule - of - thumb: If you didn't have your book professionally edited, either by Outskirts Press or another professional editing service, then apply your marketing dollars to something other than a paid - review.

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-LSB-...] 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 -LSB-...]

Do mainstream publishers pay for reviews, buy up large amounts of table space at large book stores to squeeze out their competition, or take part in any of a number of things that would look less than scrupulous to the average bear?

Not only did they take down almost 50 of my book's reviews, but after I signed the petition and then wrote a couple of emails asking why they were paying it no mind my sales mysteriously tanked.