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Penny C. Sansevieri: The Secrets to Getting More Book Reviews (Even if Your Book Is Already Out)
We hear it all the time: "the window for reviews is shrinking." And yet we still see reviews appearing everywhere. So how can you capture a share of this market?
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The battle of the book reviews | Lionel Shriver
Professional critics are no more reliable than Amazon ratings, a study shows. So do we really need them? Is the professional book reviewer an anachronism? In a recent Harvard Business School study of nonfiction reviews , assessments in mainstream media outlets like this one and amateur ratings on Amazon largely converged. Assuming we can trust the questionable verdict of mere consensus, surely ...
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Book reviews: The Cove, Summer of '68: The Season That Changed Baseball and America Forever
Ron Rash scores again, but baseball book slumps by John Grooms The Cove by Ron Rash (Ecco, 272 pages, $26.99). A smart and sensitive young woman named Laurel lives with her brother Hank in a deeply shaded, some say cursed, cove near Marshall, N.C. Hank has returned, missing a hand, from the ongoing First World War, and spends much of his time trying to rebuild and restore the family farm ...
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Book Reviews
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2012. Pp. xix, 460. Illus, maps, notes, index. $30.00. ISBN: 1250000203. Savage Continent is a grim work. In it, novelist and historian Lowe, author, among others, of Inferno - the Devastation of Hamburg 1943 , reminds us that by the end of the Second World War most of Europe was almost literally in a state of anarchy, civilization itself seeming to have collapsed.
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Reviews: Amazon v newspaper
Academics have charted reviews on social media sites and broadsheet books desks, and ranked their impact on novel sales. The results make for interesting reading Last week's paper from the Harvard Business School asking "What makes a critic tick?" put me in mind of teachers and bombs. Literary critics can be either, but are they any longer central to the chances of a novelist's success? The ...
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Amazon consumer book reviews as reliable as media experts
Study shows Amazon reviewers more likely to look favourably on debut authors, while professionals prefer prizewinners Amazon reviews are just as likely to give an accurate summary of a book's quality as those of professional newspapers, according to a study from Harvard Business School. Professor Michael Luca and his co-authors analysed the top 100 non-fiction reviews from 40 media outlets ...
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How A Tennessee Wife And Mother Of 4 Became A Top-Rated Book Critic
Kimberly Cantrell writes book reviews. Honest ones.
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How A Tennessee Wife And Mother Of Four Became A Top-Rated Book Critic
Top true crime reviewer Kimberly Cantrell discusses the site she founded, True Crime Book Reviews, and what she thinks makes for a compelling, intriguing, tension-filled storyline.
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Book Reviews with Melanie La'Brooy
Writer Melanie La'Brooy reviews two new books which have different takes on the classic road novel: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Art Lover. Read all responses to this article
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‘Unexpected Guest’ emotional end will challenge the reader
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