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New SPR Book Promotion Deals For Amazon Success

Self-Publishing Review’s new Amazon book promotion services give authors a great way of increasing customer sales and reviews in a safe and proven way, tweaked to be in line with Amazon’s new review and selling policies for June 2016 to ensure book success continues with our clients’ books.

What changes did we make?

We have changed our Best Seller Book Packages on three levels, and have renamed them, with some changes to terms of service. We did this as good practice, and to give authors security and peace of mind.

1. We are no longer offering a money-back guarantee. From […]

Cate Baum2019-04-16T13:56:32+02:00June 23rd, 2016|Categories: Features, News|Tags: Amazon News and Tips|

Goodreads Giveaways Now Include Kindle Books

Good news on the marketing front. One of the limitations of the Goodreads Giveaway program is that it was only available for print books. Given that a growing number of authors are e-only – or at least start as an ebook before moving on to print – this offers a new way to reach Goodreads’ huge pool of readers. Via Goodreads:

Last year, Goodreads helped authors and publishers give away more than 300,000 print books in our popular Giveaways program! Thanks to this success, authors and publishers have been clamoring for the option to run ebook giveaways with Goodreads.

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Henry Baum2016-05-05T07:08:53+02:00May 5th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: Goodreads Articles|

Booktrope Closing Its Doors Leaving Authors Without a Publisher

In a sad turn of events, hybrid self-publishing service, Booktrope, is going out of business. Via Geekwire:

Booktrope plans to go out of business at the end of May, bringing an end to its “team publishing” platform used by ad hoc groups of authors, editors, marketers and designers to create and market print books and e-books…

With the closure, Booktrope says it will “remove all published books from sale as of May 31, 2016,” returning rights to authors as of June 1.

There’s a lot of consternation about how Booktrope went out of business when it just received […]

Henry Baum2025-05-12T17:50:06+02:00May 2nd, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: Subsidy Publishing Articles|

Print Books Welcome! SPR Now Accepting Hardcopies For Review!

Here at SPR we have decided we will now accept print books for our Review Packages. You can submit here.

There’s been a resurgence in print book purchasing recently. Last September The New York Times reported that print was making a comeback due to strong negotiating between publishers and bookstores.

“As publishers renegotiated new terms with Amazon in the past year and demanded the ability to set their own e-book prices, many have started charging more. With little difference in price between a $13 e-book and a paperback, some consumers may be opting for the print version.”

Although e-books are […]

Cate Baum2016-05-02T10:35:25+02:00April 30th, 2016|Categories: Features, News|Tags: Book Reviews|

Nook Press Discontinues in the UK

This comes from the Nook newsletter. Big news:

Dear Publisher,

We are writing to announce an important change to our NOOK Service that will affect NOOK Press vendors publishing content in the United Kingdom. Effective March 15, 2016, NOOK will no longer sell digital content in the United Kingdom. The NOOK Store on NOOK devices sold in the UK, on the NOOK Reading App for Android, and at www.nook.com/gb will discontinue operations.

NOOK customers in the UK will continue to have access to purchased NOOK Books until May 31, 2016. After this date, NOOK has arranged for the award‑winning

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Henry Baum2016-03-04T13:52:07+02:00March 4th, 2016|Categories: News|

IndieReader and SPR Partner For Combo Deal For Authors

Self-Publishing Review and IndieReader team up to give indie authors 10% discount on editorial book reviews

Get a Combo Deal Indiereader and SPR Review and save 10%

Top indie book review sites IndieReader and Self-Publishing Review have partnered up to provide a combo deal for independent authors everywhere.

This deal saves almost $20 off the normal price for a standard IndieReader book review and an SPR Classic Book Review, and means the author makes one combined purchase instead of having to go to both sites to make the order.

Cate Baum, COO of SPR today said, “We’re pleased to announce this combo deal with IndieReader. It makes a lot of […]

Cate Baum2016-03-06T15:08:53+02:00February 23rd, 2016|Categories: Features, News|Tags: Book Reviews|

BookVenture Rips off SPR Products Without Permission – Charging $1700 More To Their Authors

We’re disappointed to announce that BookVenture, a book service run out of Ishpeming MI, is illegally marking up Self-Publishing Review services at extortionate rates. Despite sending a cease and desist letter, this company has not removed our products from their website or answered within the timeframe we requested. We said if they did not we would publicly reveal this misconduct.

The worst part of self-publishing is that companies like Book Venture scrape every last penny from authors by hiking up prices. What Book Venture have done here is not only hike up our prices, but they have renamed them and […]

Cate Baum2016-03-05T04:47:25+02:00January 29th, 2016|Categories: News|

New BISAC Headings Released for Jan 2016 Implementation

The Book Industry Study Group has announced the 2015 edition of BISAC codes that can be used for listing your book. BISAC is an acronym for Book Industry Standards and Communications, and is the descriptor used for high-level categories in libraries, bookstores, as well as being used on Amazon.

The BISG maintains this list.

“This year’s edition focuses on the addition of the Young Adult Fiction (YAF) and Young Adult Nonfiction (YAN) sections for the young adult audience (ages 12-18), and an adjustment on the age group that the Juvenile Fiction (JUV) and Juvenile Nonfiction (JNF) sections cover, now preschool […]

Cate Baum2016-01-07T14:01:20+02:00January 7th, 2016|Categories: News|