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How to Get Reviews for Your Apple iBooks

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Amazon is not the only digital book retailer where reviews are important. If you are selling your ibooks on Apple, request reviews on thisplatform as well. If you fail to get as many reviews on your iBooks products, you may be missing out on an opportunity to sell more copies there.
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How to Post an iBook Review:
Using an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or PC, you can rate and review in the iTunes Store or App Store. Apple explains on their website:
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Review or rate via iPhone, iPad, or iPo...

Part 2: How to Get Media Book Reviews

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You might have read Part 1:Amazon vs Media Reviewers. Here are more tips and a couple of links to Media Review sites. Our nextbook “111Tips on How to Get Book Reviews” (launch in late spring) will contain over600 direct links to book reviewers.
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Steps Before Sending Your Review Submission.
Your first step is to read book reviews of the publication you want to pitch with your reviewer request. What type of books do they usually review? If possible read some of the titles and compare your o...

Amazon vs Media Reviews

Part 1 of: How to Get Media Reviews

A newspaper article about the Harvard Business School paper’s conclusion regarding book reviewersreported in the Guardian:

“The Harvard report compared “professional” reviewers (e.g. those working for newspapers and magazines) with their new competition: the folk who leave reviews on Amazon. Though they limited themselves to Amazon reviewers, they could have cast their net much wider; these days the ivory towers of book reviewing are under attack by an arm...

Professional Publishing: How to Master Editorial Reviews

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Browsing through print books in libraries, bookstores, or in your own book shelves at home, one thing stands out – compared to digital books in your eReader or on your computer screen: almost all of them have editorial reviews on the inside flap or the back matter. These are often just excerpts from reviews, but most of the “reviewers” or “endorsers” are household names: bestselling authors or experts in the book’s genre. You might ask: How can a book already have endorsements and reviews b...

The Value of Bit.ly for Social Media Users

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You might use or at least know Bit.lyas a handy tool to shorten long website names – URL’s – such as this posts’ web address from
http://www.savvybookwriters.com/the-value-of-bit-ly-for-social-media-users/ tohttp://bit.ly/1VobeLO.

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When a reader clicks on the Bit.ly shortened version, they are then redirected to the original long URL. Most important: when search engines find links to your short URL’s, they will credit those links to the long URL – a great SEO benefit for your web page. Mo...

Getting Reviews from Reader Communities

Reader and Writer Forums and Communities seem to be the best places to solicit book reviews. Why, you might ask? Well, as a member you are known and appreciated and you have “personal” contact with these folks. So they are way more inclined to write a review for you. Joining Wattpad, Goodreads, or any other book club, and network on these sites is a great possibility to make a name for yourself as a writer anyway.
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FanStory
A community for writers of all skill levels, comparable with Wattp...

Authors Have Two Jobs

What other important things should authors do besides write? Answer: Get folks to read what they have written! Marketing is the other author’s job. Are you doing it?

An often-visited topic is how to create balance in our lives. Much has been written on this and it isn’t easy to achieve. Most of us face challenges that overshadow what we would like to be doing versus what we do. We get lost. Within the confines of being an author balance is critically important; it’s a must achieve imperati...

Get Book Reviews at Reader Communities

Besides reviews from book bloggers and single reviewers there are reader forums and book communities where giveaways and participation will help to get reviews. Best advice as always: get to know the readers first, follow them for a while before you bring up the reviewing topic.

Reviews really help book sales, so publishers and authors are keen to offer free book giveaways to entice reviewers. LibraryThing, Amazon or BookLikes are helping authors to set up giveaways if their books are in di...

How to Increase Readership via Sharing Buttons

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Originally I wanted to start this blog post, mentioning hundreds of websites I visited just last week, which did not have any sharing buttons. And how difficult it makes it for the reader to share information about news and events in publishing, such as publishing conferences, writing contest deadlines, freelance offers etc., or book reviewer pages. Even major international book fairs were missing out on these valuable tools. But it gets worse:

Browsing the Internet for the latest social s...

Like to Write an Article for SavvyBookWriters?

Duringthe past fouryears I have written more than 1,500blog postsat SavvyBookWriters, which have been read by over aMillionpeople.
These posts are submittedregularly– often several times a day – to Google+, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Tumblr, a dozen Google+ Communities, Goodreads etc..

However, this blog would benefit from time to time by a variety of voices, additional advice and different points of views. So,I am now inviting guest posts on our successful blog.
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