Something like NetGalley but paper?

[Afterglow Earring Co]

Hi y’all! So excited to be here. I’m new to net galley and this group! I was wondering if any of you know of something like NetGalley but they send you paper books? Because I am doing okay with the tablet and reading on there but boy do I love reading with paper!

[Dee]

there are some publishing houses that will provide print copies - but there is no website like netgalley where you can request

[Barbara]

You can always try for a Goodreads Giveaway.
I have been lucky and have won many Goodreads Arcs.

[Donna]

Kiana wrote: "Hi y’all! So excited to be here. I’m new to net galley and this group! I was wondering if any of you know of something like NetGalley but they send you paper books? Because I am doing okay with the..."

Once you have reviewed faithfully for awhile--generally it takes a couple of years of consistent reviews and a solid 80%+ review rate--publishers will start gifting you with the occasional paperback. Sometimes there will be an email asking if you're interested; other times, a book (or two, or three) will magically show up in your snail mail. But sometimes the books you receive aren't necessarily ones you'd choose.

But Barbara is right--the GR giveaways are a great way to get books you want to read. The word "win" is a misnomer, because it isn't all that random. The winners are people that write reviews. However, in my experience, once I started reviewing a lot of NG DRCs, I couldn't receive giveaways anymore. The bottom line is that it's a whole lot cheaper to send galleys digitally.

On the other hand, if I had a physical copy of all 700+ galleys I've received from NG, I wouldn't have anywhere to put them all anyway!

[Afterglow Earring Co]

Thank you guys for the help with this. These were all great tips :)

[ScavengedReads]

I'm so amazed by the people who say they've won Goodreads giveaways. I've known it wasn't random, that reviewing in the genre helps, but I cannot figure out what the trick is

[Jeanna]

I have had success with a few netgalley arcs that I reached out to the publisher after my request was approved and asked for a print copy and they sent it in the mail. Also I have one multiple gr giveaways and I still don’t know the algorithm for it all.

[Afterglow Earring Co]

Yeah I totally thought they were random. Good to know that reviews help though!

[Donna]

When I was a GR newbie, I entered the giveaways and after winning a handful of times and reviewing promptly, I began winning almost every time. But then I noticed NG kept popping up in the reviews I read, so I searched for NG online and opened an account. The next time I entered a giveaway, the publicist messaged me to say that since I was a NG member, he would just go ahead and approve my NG request instead, and then I could begin reading right away. I was pleased, actually. But after that, I couldn't win a giveaway. That river of books went dry and stayed dry.