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After sitting down and looking at the statistics for how many copies of Days' End have been sold, I am forced to wonder if it's just sitting in thousands of TBR piles, or if there is that small of a percentage of readers who review books when they finish them. Thoughts anyone?
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Scott
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Apr 07, 2012 01:22PM
It does make it a bit more difficult. That's why I try to make sure I review the books I read and post them to a variety of places. I usually hit here, amazon, amazon.uk, librarything, B&N and shelfari. Oh, and I allow my updates to post to facebook. I figure I'm trying to reach as many people as I can, so others probably are as well.
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Don't you guys ask review sites to review your book? Who blogs your genre? Send them an email and ask! I write a little-read genre and yet there are tons of review sites I could ask, and have asked. And been reviewed.
Good luck, I know it's tough.
Good luck, I know it's tough.
I've been able to get reviews, I'm just a little stunned at the ratio. I've sold/given away well over 6000 books at this point, yet have "only" 60 reviews on amazon. 1% just seems a bit low to me. Maybe that's the standard and I just need to get used to it. Anyone have any stats on their books?
Perhaps you guys might want to see if there's a helpful group on GR? Like http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/6...? They have all kinds of ideas for promos and for getting reviews. When I want to read a book I read the reviews my friends on GR post, and I might read the best and the worst reviews on Amazon, but not all of them unless there's only a couple. Sometimes when someone doesn't like a book it's simply a matter of taste, not bad writing, so I do like to read those ones and compare them to the shining 5 star ones.
