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Free Review Sites For Our Self-Published eBooks, Kindle, Createspace, and LSI books

by Don Schenk
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I have been trying to figure out how to contact folks who write book reviews. I came across a site (I am not an affiliate) at which the site owner is selling what she calls "The Indie Book Reviewer Yellow Pages." It is a $1.99 pdf for authors and self-publishers.

I just downloaded it, read through it, and it will be a goldmine for any of us creating our own products.

I love free publicity but the hard part is finding the people who will give your book a review, and figuring out which reviewers review a particular type of book.

The author contacted every reviewer reviewer she could find, and she asked the reviewers to respond to a series of about 20 questions as to what type books they review and how the want them submitted. The author put together this book with all the reviewers' responses.

Step-By-Step Self-Publishing - Home

:-Don
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  • Profile picture of the author Peeps66
    Hi Don

    Sounds Great!

    Does this include non-fiction?

    What about reworded PLR?

    Peter
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  • Profile picture of the author Don Schenk
    As I read through the list I could see that some would review non-fiction. That is how I will use them.

    As for re-published PLR, I am not sure if the reviewers even know what PLR is. They are not IMers. However, I strongly suspect there will be problems ahead if several people just republish the same PLR book and beging to sell them all at the same source - Kindle or Amazon Createspace.

    Normally PLR gets sold on individual websites by the folks who bought the PLR. The chance of the same customer seeing the different sites where the same book is being offered is probably pretty slim. But with Amazon being one website, it will be a central location for the same book by several different "authors."

    I can see that causing some problems.

    The solution would be to always do a complete rewrite of any PLR before putting it out as a Kindle or Createspace or LSI book. It could be a complete rewrite that incorporates additional information in the rewrite to really make the book different. Oh yes, and give it a different title.

    :-Don
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  • Profile picture of the author WillClark
    Great resource, Don. I've used this list several times and have gotten plenty of great reviews out of it.

    Another thing I do is search for similar books on Google's blog search and find bloggers who have written reviews for those books, and email them with an offer for a free copy of my kindle book in exchange for a review. This works really well because they typically have a pretty strong interest in the topic of the book and a lot of times the blog is related to the topic, so the traffic and sales generated are great.
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