Getting More Book Reviews on Amazon and Goodreads

Don't be afraid to reply in the comments and ask for reviews on platforms such as Amazon or Goodreads, as Joanna Penn suggests. Remember ...

It's the #2 question* I get from readers: "Can I leave a review for your book on Amazon, even though I didn't buy your book there?".

Instead, I use it to get a rough and ready sense of how a book might be selling based on the number of ratings and the speed at which they ...

Also don't rule out “the little guys” do the same thing that you do with goodreads. Find a book similar to yours and then look at the high ...

On the Reports & Marketing tab, you can get some info about your books' sales, you can make recommendations to your readers of books you like, ...

Even if a reader doesn't purchase the book directly through a retailer (e.g., Amazon), most retailers will still allow the readers to leave a ...

Goodreads has been around for a while and has more reviews than Amazon. There are millions of books and not all of them get reviews on Amazon.

The high average review rate is because their users are vetted and accepted as serious book reviewers. Before users can get approval to join ...

Look up books similar to yours on Amazon, Goodreads, and other retailers, and contact those who have left reviews about reviewing your book. Or ...

Amazon sales ranks and New York Times best seller lists don't ... It's hard to get attention for a book that is being published. And ...

It's important to have your book available at these popular selling venues. Amazon is the number one place people buy books online, Barnes & ...

Write in a conversational tone as if you are describing the book to a friend you are recommending it to. You don't need to get all technical or ...

Yes, we've worked on making the reviews “official” so they'd get into the algorithm as I tend to get books in a lot of ways. Goodreads is a good ...

So it seems more likely that sales generate ratings, not the other way around. Most of the authors I spoke with agree that at a certain point of ...

1. Find 100 Amazon reviewers interested in your topic (have reviewed something similar) and offer to give them your book.

... Goodreads users' reviews, we recognized one clear answer: Goodreads and Amazon. ... more than 15,000 Goodreads reviews explicitly mentioned ...

Free ARC's are not affected. The guidelines also state that reviews that involve an author posting a positive review about a peer's book in ...

Amazon to Buy Social Site Dedicated to Sharing Books ... Amazon, the dominant online bookseller, said late Thursday that it would buy Goodreads, ...

... get people to ... reviews of new books, similar to Rotten Tomatoes. It's a wonderful resource… Amazon Angela Lashbrook books Goodreads ...

I ran a goodreads giveaway for my new book. Here are a few entrant ... I have 1 Amazon review, and 2 Goodreads reviews. Was the $100 ...