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I find it utterly frustrating when a publisher rejects me on NetGalley given that I have a 96% feedback ration, have written nearly 200 reviews, and post them on my blog, here on GR, as well as via all of my social media channels, and I get the generic message I should improve my profile. Really? How?
— Mar 28, 2017 01:16PM
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Mar 28, 2017 02:46PM
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It bothers me too , Larry . My feedback ratio is 89. I have written 227 reviews for NetGalley books and 86 for Edelweiss and I get rejected. I don't have a blog and never get approved by Knopf and very rarely by Little Brown. I try not to let it bother me since I have a bunch waiting on my kindle.
Maybe it's because they aren't allowed to give out more than a number of copies or maybe theyre only supposed to give them out to readers in a specific region?
See this confuses me because I have a 43% ratio and I get sent copies of stuff to the UK when the publishers "may not be allowed to". Maybe it comes down to the actual content in your bio?
Angela M wrote: "It bothers me too , Larry . My feedback ratio is 89. I have written 227 reviews for NetGalley books and 86 for Edelweiss and I get rejected. I don't have a blog and never get approved by Knopf and ..."Angela, don't even get me STARTED on Edelweiss. I totally gave up there because I requested a few books and never heard anything. EVER. Tried a few times, nothing.
Pouting wrote: "Maybe it's because they aren't allowed to give out more than a number of copies or maybe theyre only supposed to give them out to readers in a specific region?"Maybe. I just wish they'd say that rather than make me believe everything I'm doing is wrong.
Syo ⋆ Shadow Minded ⋆ wrote: "See this confuses me because I have a 43% ratio and I get sent copies of stuff to the UK when the publishers "may not be allowed to". Maybe it comes down to the actual content in your bio?"I don't know that it would be my bio, really. I mean, I thought what NetGalley wants is for people to hype these books everywhere. I do think they may be looking for certain demographics sometimes.
Kat wrote: "I think it's totally random"Probably.
I found 2 publishers that for sure won't accept my requests due to not having a blog! You have one though.Larry and Angela... I don't see how either one of you would be denied any request, that's crazy!!
