Instead of spending all that money
on paid book reviews, think about what Erin Keane wrote near the end of her Salon article:
Not exact matches
The laws, which are now being
reviewed under a public comment period, will likely spark a legal battle over who would
pay for burials and whether or not such rules should even be
on the
books.
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.
Some people have bought them
on Fiverr, «I'll
pay you $ 5 to post a
review for your
book.»
My first
paid writing gig was
reviewing back when I was in junior high — the Kansas City Star had a teen section and I did
reviews on books, TV shows and films for several years there, as well as the occasional humor column.
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.
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.
For our immediate purpose, focus
on costs associated with an author website, advanced reader copies, and
paying for
book reviews.
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.
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.
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).
-LSB-...] Posted by admin
on Sep 5, 2012 Although it was not the first salvo in the unveiling of the fiasco that is author - purchased
book reviews, David Streitfeld's article The Best Book Reviews Money Can Buy (NY Times, Aug. 26, 2012) has set off a firestorm of discussions like the one I'm following on The Book Designer website (Should Authors Pay for Book Review
book reviews, David Streitfeld's article The Best Book Reviews Money Can Buy (NY Times, Aug. 26, 2012) has set off a firestorm of discussions like the one I'm following on The Book Designer website (Should Authors Pay for Book Rev
reviews, David Streitfeld's article The Best
Book Reviews Money Can Buy (NY Times, Aug. 26, 2012) has set off a firestorm of discussions like the one I'm following on The Book Designer website (Should Authors Pay for Book Review
Book Reviews Money Can Buy (NY Times, Aug. 26, 2012) has set off a firestorm of discussions like the one I'm following on The Book Designer website (Should Authors Pay for Book Rev
Reviews Money Can Buy (NY Times, Aug. 26, 2012) has set off a firestorm of discussions like the one I'm following
on The
Book Designer website (Should Authors Pay for Book Review
Book Designer website (Should Authors
Pay for
Book Review
Book ReviewsReviews?).
-LSB-...]
paid book reviews, here are links to click
on or copy / paste into the address line of your browser.
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.
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 ex
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 ex
review 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.
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.
The message was echoed in some of the comments, a la «Indie
books are crap, I skip them entirely» and «No wonder they have to
pay for
reviews, they suck» and so
on.
It's just that, ironically, if you have to
pay for a
review... it isn't worth the paper it's printed
on (most of the time — there are a few exceptions to this rule), as far as this
book publicist is concerned.
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I came across this article today
on NYT.com about a entreprenurial guy who gets
paid to write online
book reviews: Link Here
We've even been featured
on websites Authors — This is SO important, NEVER
pay for #BookReviews Author Aimee Brown
Book Magnet # 4 —
Book Reviews Ani Alexander
Book Tour Companies: The Complete List
Books and Readers
Book Reviews for Indie Authors — Part Three:
Paid Reviews BookWorks 12 Ways to Publicize, Promote, Market, and Sell Your
Book Joan Y. Edwards
Book Blog Adventures Leonora Meriel
Book Reviews: How to Get
Book Reviews on Amazon Made For Success Publishing 7 Strategies and 110 + Tools to Help Indie Authors Find Readers and Reviewers Musings and Marvels You've Published a
Book, Now What?
I could see
paying for
reviews or giving away
book copies in exchange for a
review (advancing position
on the TBR list), but those
reviews need to be honest ones.
You'd be much better off advertising
on one specific blog that
reviews books in your genre:
pay for a sidebar ad for a few weeks, rather than getting
on 10 blogs in a day.
A few weeks back the New York Times ran a piece
on the inherently dubious business of
paid book reviews.
The more positive
reviews you have
on your Amazon site for your
book, the more likely people will believe the
book is worth the money you're asking people to
pay for it.
There are three different kinds of
reviews that are often confused in the heat of the debate: 1) Customer, aka consumer,
reviews on online bookstores like Amazon; 2) peer -
reviews, by other authors and; 3) the
paid - for
reviews from organizations like your own and BlueInk
Review, where indies can
pay to have their
book independently
reviewed.
(I have to admit chuckling when doing research online and I've seen «
paid - for - this»
reviews for traditionally published
books — in their
book descriptions and
on their covers.)
Thanks to a recent $ 25,000 Amazon grant that helped
pay the editors and writers of the Los Angeles
Review of
Books, the company intends
on revamping its website.
So, i game the system and
pay $ 10,000 for each
book, buy
reviews and ratings
on 1st day of release.
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.
The author is
paying money in order to promote their
book — and they may as well throw that money down the drain if they're
paying for their
book to be promoted
on blogs that have few readers or
reviewed by bloggers who don't like their
book.
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.
If Customer has
paid for BBS»
book editing services, the parties acknowledge that BBS»
book editing services are subject to the editing service terms and conditions available for
review on BBS» website.
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.
Top reviewers never
pay for
books because they have authors send them free all the time, but if you catch the eye of some of the
review stars in your genre, you'll be
on your way to big sales.
There are varying opinions
on using
paid reviews like Kirkus and Foreward in your
book marketing, but I can tell you that they're generally honest.
She
paid $ 35 for a
review on IndieReader.com (who no longer offers
paid reviews) and she paid $ 575 for an expedited review from Kirkus Reviews, a notable book review journal and w
reviews) and she
paid $ 575 for an expedited
review from Kirkus
Reviews, a notable book review journal and w
Reviews, a notable
book review journal and website.
On that page, you'll find several kinds of
paid book review services at very different rates, namely:
Gremlins have even got into the file document creating process
on Lulu in one of my
book projects at least; I only noticed this after it got a 1 star rating
on a
review I
paid for.
Your entry fee includes a
book review and if you qualify for the Early Bird Discount of 20 percent, your net cost to enter the Discovery Awards would be just $ 20 (if you were already planning
on paying for a $ 100
book review).
The fee you'll
pay to get your
book reviewed by me is only a fee for reading your
book and to buy it
on Amazon Kindle store if you spend a minimun of 45 euros.
Evidently those newsletters are partly responsible for the current trend of authors
paying for
reviews (reportedly, they require a large number of 4 and 5 star
reviews on Amazon in order to accept a
book for promotion.
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.
I want
book reviews from an organic reader who downloaded my
book on free or
paid.
When I publish my
paid reviews on this literary website (you can find this service
on the submission form with the name «editorial
review»), if your
book is good, I suggest that publishers and movie directors release the
book traditionally or make a movie from it.