Contacting publishers about their products

Yesterday a thread on article marketing I asked a question on how I would be able to generate numerous articles for article marketing on a Clickbank type product and now I understand that much better.

Another post in that thread mentioned contacting the author to get a review copy of the item so it could be read for possible promotion purposes, which would be important to be able to write the articles.

I talked today with a fellow who has done some copy for me in the past and asked him abou it and he and I came to an agreement for him to write some articles for me. I would write them myself but the purpose of this is to be successful, not to waste my time writing articles no one would want to read. And then the question arises, how does one find and contact the publisher to try and get such a review copy? I have checked and many times the publisher does not make their contact information available and more times than not the whois information is private and the few times I have sent a message to the email address listed, never have I received a reply. Obviously what ever problem I had with the web site was not important enough to respond.

So, how does one get to communicae with the publisher and how does one convince them to part with a review copy. I could make three or four, maybe more sites a week being a broke down crippled old man, if I could get enough products to review. As long as I could keep generating revenue from them, I can keep paying for articles to be written. This could be a never ending story if I did it right. But seriously, I got nothing better to do. And I am tired of sitting on my a**. I never liked having a job all that much, most of the time. But now I can't work I do tend to get board. I wish I had found this internet marketing a few years ago before most of my savings got eaten up.

Anyway, I appreciate any help anyone can share with me on this.