Question Posted on Independent Authors at Yahoo Groups. >> Do book reviews sell book? Yes, and the review sites can prove it, because they get paid a percentage of the “buy-through” from Amazon. They don’t sell that many, and more nonfiction than fiction, but they do sell. And why not try to get our books […]

I personally don’t believe that book reviews sell as many books as do feature stories. Yes, they have a role to play, but it’s actually a very limited role. The real gains are to be made with galvanizing feature stories. The key to understanding this is that book reviews tend to simply show and tell […]

I’ll talk the point of view from someone who gets books reviewed day in day out as a book publicist. I do this for a living, so I’ll share with you how I do it and what it takes to do it well. I’m not a fan of book reviews, I believe that they have […]

The Washington Post is dropping their stand alone book section and will be moving book reviews into other sections of the paper… See the whole story http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/28/AR2009012802208.html End of an era.

An author on the Yahoo Self Publishing list asked: >>I am planning on using this feature for my book, The Guru Next Door, A >>Teacher’s Legacy but wanted to check with ya’ll first. Is there any >> reason NOT to do this? I was actually interviewed at the Book Expo America on this issue back […]

Do good book reviews always sell books? This question was posed on the Self Publishing list at Yahoo Groups My experience is that a good review certainly helps sell books (or other products) but they don’t always sell that many. In fact, when I did a survey of book reviewers ten years ago, I recall […]