Kindle British Mystery Book Club discussion

Trying to make the Giveaway/Review system fairer

Since my book came out, I've discovered that getting book reviews is not a an easy task. I've encountered terrible requests and elaborated forms, and bluntly some reviewers that are asking for money or a paperback only to consider your review!

On the other side of the coin, NetGalley which i like as a reader, is pretty expensive for my small publisher - so unless u have a big publishing house, it will be almost impossible to list your giveaway there. Goodreads help, but the paperback giveaways does not allow you to request people to read your eBooks as well.

I worked hard to setup BookGobbler. The aim is to create a "marketplace" where giveaways are free (or symbolically charged if this turns out to be too much work) and the reviews are genuine.
May I ask that you have a glance if you like giveaways: http://www.bookgobbler.com or if as authors you are willing to list a giveaway to still very thin reader base :)

Moderator, if this is not the right place or simply annoys you I do apologise, there is ZERO malintent here.
Thanks all
Jonathan

Jonathon, I am interested, for sure. But, I am not clear as to how I would download an ebook. I am hoping it is through Amazon because that is so easy for my kindle but I doubt they do anything for free. More instructions please and more books. lol
good luck with this.

Hi Mary - thanks a lot for being the first to respond.

Getting the books would not be through Amazon. but sending your Kindle an eBook is very easy. If you send me a private message I will teach you how to do it. In the future I will try to make books sent from the website directly.

As for more books - LOL - I'm really working on it and reached out to a few authors. My publisher also had promised me two fantasy books, these will be added asap. remember every small journey starts with one step :)

Mary, further to your comment - I am adding instructions to adding eBook on the website BookGobbler.com

many thanks for the feedback

here is the post on how to send books to your kindle device http://www.bookgobbler.com/2017/08/14...

Anyways in 48 hours the website got a few dozens readers, and 6 giveaways from great authors if you feel like checking it out. But goes to show u that there is a genuine need in this market for something fairer ...

Mary wrote: "Jonathon, I am interested, for sure. But, I am not clear as to how I would download an ebook. I am hoping it is through Amazon because that is so easy for my kindle but I doubt they do anything for..."

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