Sentences with phrase «paid review services»

It's equally common for indie authors to purchase reviews through paid review services.

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 your work.

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.

The new review system sounds swell, and should go a long way with combating paid review services and internet trolls.

For years, Amazon has fought back against paid review services.

The Prize is a great way for authors to receive a short review of their book, for much less than many paid review services.

Michelle, I don't have the budget to use a legitimate paid review service even if I wanted to, but if it's a service where reviewers actually read the book and write an honest review, that's totally different from the scam reviewers the NY Times article referred to.

Once you've reached out to your friends, family, and fellow writers for reviews, you might consider sources like Publishers Weekly or Kirkus, who offer paid reviewing services.

How does that compare with making a sock puppet account or paying a review service?

I spoke with the founder of Kirkus Discoveries, the paid review service today.

Maybe this shunned service sped up his trajectory, but the paid review service didn't write the books for him.

I get that I'm supposed to be more upset about this paid review service, but what Locke did doesn't look different to me than Kirkus Reviews (and, as you point out, other favor trades from trad pubbing that are entrenched and go unremarked.)

In this interview, BlueInk Review founder Patty Moosbrugger gives advice and tips on how to make the best of a paid review service.

For faster results, consider the paid review services available: Kirkus, San Francisco Book Review, and Publisher's Weekly's PW Select... just to name a few.

Book Bloggers unlike a paid review service have nothing to gain from giving a positive review.

«Actually, PW has dropped their paid review service (and kudos to them for doing so!).

For unsolicited books, however, we offer a paid review service of $ 99 per book that is typically turned around within two weeks.

BestThrillers offers free book reviews but also avails a $ 99 paid review service that posts reviews on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.

To secure reviews for an indie book, authors had just a few options last year: paid review services (offered by outlets such as Kirkus, IndieReader, BlueInk Review, and Self - Publishing Review); customer reviews (solicited by sending review copies to beta readers or via Goodreads or social media giveaways); or a blog tour, where bloggers run an excerpt, review, or q & a — none of which usually leads to coverage in the traditional media.

Kirkus does offer a paid review service, separate from its core, non-paid reviews, which can confuse matters.

I work for a small publisher and we decided years ago, when the paid review services first started rearing their ugly heads (and formerly legitimate venues like Kirkus went the paid route), that a review you had to pay for was a negative, no matter how positive it was.

I think in some cases it can work, if it's a paid review service where they actually read the book and they are respected in the industry.