How to Get Your Book Reviewed: Tips for Small Press and Self-Published Authors

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Book reviews are a great tool to increase book sales, they work much better than paid ads. While big publishers have their own, established venues of gathering reviews for their new releases, small press and self-published authors, who need reviews perhaps even more, often do not know where to turn.

In case if you are wondering why you should make an extra effort to have your book reviewed, the answer is simple: reviews sell books. Advertising has become ineffective these days; people are tired of paid ads and simply ignore them. You can pay hundreds, if not thousands, to place an ad for your book in some magazine and have little or no sales increase in return. Reviews, on the other hand, are regarded with much more attention. People trust book reviews because it is someone���s independent opinion.

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