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… to submit your book details so what have you got to lose?  says the home page at some-book-review-site.dot-com. Maybe not to submit details, but to get any further you’ll have to pay a minimum of $99 for two reviews of your books. You can buy 50 reviews for $1,499 including ebook purchase. I’m not sure if that means all 1,499 reviews will come from the same purchase – in which case either one person is writing 1,499 reviews, or the ebook is being passed around 1,498 times, which means it might take a while before you get your reviews. Yet they'll be done in 14 days. Go figure.  Why am I even posting this? We all know that buying reviews is against Amazon’s t&c and in any case is immoral and downright dodgy (unless you are a famous writer who allegedly doesn’t even write their own books, in which case it’s apparently perfectly fine, but that’s another story). And we likes stories, don’t we?  I’m posting this as I’ve just spent an age removing hundreds of spammy comm...

Image via http://9gag.com/ Post by Kathleen Jones Getting your book reviewed is one of the most difficult aspects of publishing a book - whether you’re doing it yourself or through a publishing house.  We’re all eager to have our books noticed and recommended to the lovely readers we hope to entertain, inform or intrigue.  Magazine and newspaper review sections have contracted over the past few years, so sources of hard-copy review are hard to find and usually closed to independently published books.  But, at the same time, Cyber-reviewing has expanded into outer space and beyond. Amazon and LoveReading encourage us all to rate and review the books we’ve bought, and there are other dedicated readers’ review sites - the vast Book Blogs and GoodReads   are the biggest, with Kindle Users Forum   not far behind.   And then there are all the thousands of private book blogs all chattering away like mad about books - and not just the ones that appea...