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Random question, but I’ve been wanting to know how one gets access to books that haven’t been published yet 🤔

Mish wrote: "Random question, but I’ve been wanting to know how one gets access to books that haven’t been published yet 🤔"

Through netgalley and edelweiss, mostly. At least these are the ones I use the most but there are several options according to who you prefer because in the past I used to read tons of indie authors from small publishing houses or self-published and it works differently for them.
Netgalley and edelweiss are used by the publishers mostly (both very famous houses and indie ones) or the authors themselves to boost the hype for their titles before publication and get opinions early on so that potential readers will be more convinced to buy that title when it is released. So it's a marketing operation, in short. If you have booktok and have a lot of followers, some editors also let you sign up so they directly send you a physical arc you can use in your posts.
If you are a person who just reviews lol what they ask of you is that you write an honest review over here and the retail sites after it comes out (and that you don't share your arc obviously, since you are accessing an uncorrected proof copy). Some titles are free too read while for others you need to ask for access and the publisher or author has to accept you. But it's really a wide world. When I used to have a book blog, authors also emailed me or I signed up on pr teams directly (especially when it comes to indie authors).