Sentences with phrase «paid book reviews since»

-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-...]

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

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).

The three star review is much more damaging, because it introduces a controversial issue (paid book reviews)-- which is only a very tiny portion of the entire book's content, but enough to scare some people off, especially since it's voted most helpful and appears at the top.

You don't get paid for reviewing e-arcs, since it's free; but you'll be helping the author and publisher out with praise and feedback for the book.

The «self publishing racket» is really becoming a huge industry, and it's spawning a subsidiary, hugely profitable racket: paying to get reviewed, since more and more reviewers and book bloggers are refusing to even look at small press, self - published or vanity press books.

Since TechH2o.com is a technical blog, I wouldn't expect its writer to know that which should be obvious to authors, publishers, book publicists, and other book publishing professionals: one doesn't pay for legitimate book reviews.

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..