A Book Review is a Gift that Keeps on Giving

Every time you purchase a product or use a service, you are almost always prompted to leave at least a star-based rating on your experience. These ratings and reviews serve those businesses in a variety of ways, but in few places are they as critical to the success of authors and books as they are in online marketplaces like Amazon.

There are a lot of business reasons that drive this that I won’t go into here, because the bottom line is this:

If you do not review the books that you enjoy, the online marketplaces do not promote them so that other readers can discover them as well.

Best-selling authors and large publishing corporations do not need your reviews. Small publishers and independent authors do.

If you are looking for an ideal holiday present for the author in your life, give them the gift of a review for their books.

From my personal Holiday Wish List, you can leave reviews for my books here:

Building Baby Brother

Amazon
Goodreads


Corporate Catharsis

Amazon
Goodreads

Important Tip: Did you know that you don’t have to purchase the book on Amazon in order to leave a review?

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