You probably don’t need to be convinced of the importance of getting free book reviews as well as kindle reviews for your ebooks. However, how does a new author get those crucial Kindle book reviews that will help to drive up sales? Most resources will give you common advice like: • Build a list and ask your subscribers for reviews • Reach out to your followers and ask them to review your book • Beg your friends, associates, colleagues, and family for reviews That’s all fine and dandyif you have those resources at your disposal or are willing to trade in your friendship for a favor. But what about the rest of us? The ones who don’t have raving fans ready to drop reviews on request. Or those of us without a giant email list and oodles of friends that we ‘want’ to send our ebook to? If you're a voracious reader, buying ebook after ebook can burn a huge hole in your wallet. Thankfully, there are plenty of websites offering free ebooks, and these. Free books for Kindle: The secrets of how to get the world's greatest books for a radical price - Kindle edition by Chris Graham. Download it once and read it on your. Best Sites to Download Free Books for Your Kindle. There are so many free Kindle books that are available out there that you could go years and years without having to buy a book for your Kindle. It's easier than you think to get free Kindle books, you just need to know where to. Jun 01, 2012 How to self-publish an ebook. Well, Smashword data indicates that free e-books get about 100 times. Lulu e-books are distributed to Apple's. ![]() ![]() Despair not my friends, because in this guide on how to get book reviews, I’ll show you how you can legally, and legitimately get those reviews, even if you’re a brand new author. In This Article I Will Show You: • A proven step-by-step method on how to get your book reviewed for free • Tactics to getting high conversions and good grades on book reviews • A time-saving method to expedite your book review process • Amazon’s rules regarding book reviews – the REAL rules And yes, as you’ll see at the end of this article, each step is fully compliant with the up-to-date Amazon rules for getting book reviews. Also, while I’m writing this with the new author in mind, it’s totally applicable to all authors. The “Get Free Book Reviews” Strategy Overview Did you know that certain Amazon shoppers make their contact information public willingly? More importantly, these same shoppers also like to leave book reviews for free. Inside of your own Amazon account, you have the ability to put your email address in there and make it public. Now before you freak out about the potential of your email being seen publicly, you have to actively go in there and actively make it public. Amazon doesn’t do that automatically. But there are customers out there who do exactly that and make their email public on Amazon. If you click on their Amazon account name, you can see their email address. Now, the only legitimate reason I can think of as to why they’d do that is either: A). It was a complete mistake and they didn’t know what they were doing when they took all those extra steps to make their email visible. They want people to know they do reviews and contact them about it. Some people are professional reviewers. They get that cool tag as a top reviewer and garner the attention of companies looking for good reviewers to leave reviews. Well, guess what. We authors can find these reviewers, contact them and send them a copy of our book, and that’s exactly what I’m going to show you. So, with that, let’s begin! Step 1: Generate a List of Books Your Readers Would Love First, we want to find a group of books our target readers would probably love. The idea is that if they read that book, and left a favorable review of that book, then they’ll probably be interested in reading our book. Here are a couple of ways you can find exactly those books that would fit best: • If you already have a book of yours in that niche or genre, then add it to the list. It’s always good to get the email addresses of those who have already read your stuff and left a great review. ![]() • Go to your target and peruse the top 100 books to see if any of them are a good fit. • Go to the Amazon search bar at the top, and type in words that would describe your type of book – be specific so that you find books that really are close to yours. However, there is in just a couple of minutes. Step 3: Reach Out to the Potential Reviewers Now that we have this amazing list of email addresses of willing and able reviewers, it’s time to connect. But, you need to do this individually. No copy and paste. We want to legitimately connect with them and make sure that they feel as though we are individually reaching out to them and not just mass emailing. If it looks like you just copied and pasted, your conversion rate for this process will be extremely low. So as to do this correctly, here are a few things you should include in your message: • Introduction (“I’ve read your review of X for book Y”) • Bring up one part of their review so as to show that you actually read it. • Why you are reaching out to them (“I wrote a similar book you’ll probably enjoy reading”) • Request (“I’d be happy to send you a free copy in exchange for an honest review”) Write 5 sentences or less. Most of these people are busy reading and reviewing other books, so they’ll appreciate if you respect their time. Here’s an example: Dear [name of reviewer or account name if not available], I saw your review of [ Book Name] back in [date review made]. I completely agree that [ Author name of the book] did a great job with [ Aspect of their review]. I see that you’re a fan of [ genre or niche]. I’ve got a new book coming out that I think love called [ Title]. [ One to two sentence hook for your book – should be the first two sentences you used for your Amazon Book Description – seriously this should seal the deal] If you’d be interested, I’d love to send you a free copy of the book in return for an honest review. If so, let me know which format you’d prefer. Respectfully, [ Author Name] See? Does that feel spammy? Over the top? No.’ If this person likes those kinds of books, and you personally reached out to them about it, why not take a free book. Can’t hurt, right? Step 4: Send Your Book To People Who Want to Read It Now that you have a couple of people who have agreed to read your book in return for a review, it’s time to send them a copy. Although, this step is easier said than done. There are two ways of doing this legally and legitimately (as you’ll see in the Amazon rules listed in the next section). Ask them what format of your book they’d like to receive (epub, mobi, or pdf). I recommend asking, instead of just sending them all three versions. If you have something like Dropbox, you could put the book in your and just send them a share link. Use a service like where it will make it very easy for your potential reviewer to get a copy of your book in any format, but also ensure you can manage the book and not find it on a. Basically, Book Funnels makes giving copies of your book easy and safe and is only $20 a year. I can also act as a landing page if you are a writer who doesn’t have their own website or any of that other stuff. When sending them the link, be sure to tell them when you’d like to receive a review from them – 2 weeks is a good time frame. If you’ve yet to launch your book, let them know you’ll send them a link to the product page once your book goes live. Step 5: Send a Follow Up Message Not all of the people who have told you they’ll review your book will review it. Sometimes life just gets in the way. Expect about 20% to post their review within your time frame without a little nudging. To squeeze a few more reviews out of this process, send a polite follow-up a week after your deadline reminding people to post their review. This additional step should generate a few more free book reviews. In the end, one out of three people who initially replied to you should post their amazon review. Skip the Most Time-Consuming Part (And Work On Your Book Instead) Now, for some of us, we’d rather be writing our next book or employing other ebook marketing tactics than searching for useful email addresses. But there is no denying the importance of those initial reviews. Thankfully, can help. Instead of you having to use your time looking for potential reviewers and following all of the steps above manually, this program will do it for you. After buying the program, all you have to do is: • Type in a search term as you would an Amazon search • Then a list of books will appear and you need to choose which ones you want the program to extract the emails of past reviewers from. • Once the results are ready, you can choose from which group to extract the emails. • Now, enjoy having a list of reviewers who have favorably reviewed other books like yours. • Get to writing those emails and enjoy the increased number of free book reviews. One thing I really like is that you can do all the emails right from and even create legit templates that import data like the Title of the book they reviewed, and when they left the review. However, don’t forget to be personable like mentioned above. • Pretty simple huh? Let’s see it in action: Also, you can see my good friend CJ Anaya’s full video showing. Amazon’s Rules on Book Reviews There is a little bit of confusion when it comes to giving a free book and asking for reviews. In truth, Amazon was a little confusing about how they look at this. However, I went through all of Amazon’s user agreements, FAQ’s and even their own memo’s so as to give you a definitive answer of: YES, you can give a free copy of your book in advance for a review. But there are some caveats and nuisances to this statement. So, check out the video below and learn all about Amazon’s Book Review policy and ensure you are continually operating in Amazon’s good graces. Now, Let’s Go Get Those Free Book Reviews No matter which route you’ll go, there’s no easier way to get the initial reviews, especially if you’re an unknown author. An additional benefit of this approach is that you’ll get to speak with your readers directly, thus getting valuable feedback and building new relationships. I hope you enjoyed this guide on how to get free book reviews. It seems pretty straightforward, but can be a little time-consumingbut as most authors will tell you, getting your book reviewed can be a powerful metric that should have a positive effect on your Kindle sales. I just did this for my upcoming mermaid novel; got a few hundred names – sometimes you only get the website address, so you have to go to their site and leave a message or contact them that way. It’s smart that there are services for this now, since most authors are too lazy to do it. In my case, I’ll also be contacting a few hundred YA / paranormal romance blogs and book reviewers, but offering them better offers than just a free book (like a big giveaway for YA readers, or a bigger project they can be involved in). They get enough requests for book reviews, see what you can bring to the table, offer more than any other author is willing to. • Pingback: () •. Hey Paul, great question. With regards to Amazon, you actually have to go out of your way to ensure that your personal email address is connected and shows with your review. Therefore, most of the people who have their email show up with their review are those that are doing the reviews professionally or are just interested in doing them for free productsor the random outlier. But you are right, to an extent. Since I operate in niche areas and am heavily invested into the proper marketing of my works, I don’t just mass email people. I personally reach out and build connections.but not all people put forth the extra effort. In essence, any marketing tactic used without tact, respect or completely overused in mass quantity can quickly become spammy. I write in a particular genre and one of my books has 75 reviews. I just went through all “top” “positive” reviews for emails, found 12. I then just sent a BCC email which I tried to make sound personal and told them how much I appreciated them reviewing my other book. Let’s see if I get a few bites for reviewing my current book in same genre. I have tried this method with a non-fiction book using another service where you pay them $35 to do the same thing. You give them 3-5 similar books and they do the searching. In a few days they supply a spreadsheet with the reviewer name, email, book they reviewed. I sent out personal emails to all of the 100. From the constant follow up I got 7 reviews. Not worth the time and effort. I purchased the program and have found that it is a useful tool, but that’s exactly what it is – a tool. Something that needs to be used correctly or it’s a waste of time. Tips to help: (1) make sure you’re targeting the correct audience (that the books you select really are like yours (2) be clear upfront when you send out your emails about any content issues that your audience may find appealing/repulsive (3) If you get rude responses, Deb does provide a link in the training where you can notify her and that reviewer’s name can be added to her list so that future searches don’t give out that reviewer’s name. All that said, my success rate with getting reviews is that only about 10% of the people emailed said they would review. About 35% actually did their reviews. If you want the program to pay for itself, you need to be willing to use it long term. Hi Dave, If your customers are searching in icy waters near an iceberg, let your followers know, we are a group of retirees in New Zealand and read a great deal as well as write and publish – mostly golf books and humorous books – adult humor mostly. We decided to offer a #free #bookreview service and readers and yourself can see what we do on our website and you can see pages for what we need to do a free book review and also a page for reviews we have done. We love Authors and love to review most all genres of books. All our reviews are free. Here’s an example of our reviews: 5 Stars “A Bold Frank and Fearless Description of Amazing Events of an Incredibly Full Life.” “Christian Title’s “Climbed the Hill” is an amazing true life story and is one of the most moving personal accounts I have ever read. The writer bares his soul and takes you on an unbelievable journey and transformation of a boy of average beginnings to a multi million dollar successful artist. His story is uplifting in a way you don’t expect – the reader pauses many times to reflect about what was just read. Written with a remarkable touch of humor which keeps the reader fascinated and eager to see what the next turn of events will bring, the author doesn’t hide anything but gives a bold, frank and fearless description of the amazing events of his incredibly full life. A great read which I found difficult to put down, this memoir would make an intriguing and heart-warming movie. A human life is not always coherent and easily explained but you understand his actions clearly. The story covers the Art World, his talented performances as a singer in Paris night clubs, sailing the world and much more including “those wonderful creatures called women” some extremely famous and very well known. As a legacy, Mr. Title is planning a multi million dollar a new art center and museum featuring his works,his extensive collection of American impressionist paintings, and international exhibits along with studios for aspiring artists.” •. Tried them after they posted on FB saying they wanted books to review. I emailed them a copy of the book within five minutes of the post going up and received a very prompt email reply saying they’d ask the Team if anyone could review. Less than 24 hours later I received another email saying the Team was absolutely swamped with back books and they had no time to review mine. That’s completely fine and I have no issue with that – it is a free service after all. I just would have preferred an honest reply such as this book isn’t in the genre we’re reviewing. It does pay to keep your story consistent when you’re using multiple social media outlets to promote your website.
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