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How To Send Review Copies of Your Book to Potential Reviewers

by Miral Sattar •  November 23, 2014  •   Follow miralsattar

Published in Publishing Tips  •  32 comments

A question we get from authors is how to send review copies of their book to potential reviewers. We’ve put together a quick guide to help you below. 

1. Just create a PDF and send that to the reviewer via email.

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2. Download the .mobi file from Amazon and send that one if the reviewer wants to read it on his Kindle. If the reviewer wants an EPUB for their iPad or Nook you can send them that as well.

 


 

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3. Send the book as a gift to the reviewer. In this case, when he redeems the gift, this will count as a sale. You pay the list price but you get back the royalty. So you could end up paying only 30% of the digital price. If you get a reviewer like this they show up on Amazon as a verified purchase.

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4. Contact your reviewer when you run a KPD free promotion.

Remember, reading a book takes time. Expect your book reviewer to take up to several weeks to read your book.

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About Miral Sattar

Lover of books. CEO & founder of Bibliocrunch. Love storytelling in all its forms. Formerly TIME. I'm a new media entrepreneur who has worked in the media industry for 11 years. My mission is simple – to innovate the publishing industry with technology. My company has been featured in BBC World News, Money Magazine, Bloomberg, Consumer Reports, Forbes, WSJ, MediaBistro, PBS, Columbia Journalism Review, The Next Web, Publishers Weekly, and a bunch of other places. Bibliocrunch was also selected as The Next Big Thing in media by the Paley Center. I also used to run a popular South Asian culture blog called Divanee. Before I ran my own company and became a mom, I used to be on the board for several literacy organizations, and wrote a LOT more. Hopefully, when things are calmer I can go back to that! :)