Amazon.com Top Reviewers. Pt. 2
This idea is going nowhere fast.
First of all, fully half of the amazon.com top reviewers I have looked at review either only DVD/movies (most often) or CD/audio reviews. No audio books that I have spotted thus far.
I have probably sent out 15 messages, either through emails when they offer that up on their profile page or through the “Invite as an amazon Friend” option which is the backdoor approach that Steve Weber mentioned in his book Plug Your Book! Some of the Top Reviewers even have this turned off.
I am up through reviewer 50 with the 15 message sent out (all the other reviewers were specific to movies, audio, fiction, cookbooks, etc that were not even close to appropriate for The Wealth Manifesto).
I have received thus far exactly ONE (yes, that’s 1) reply. A very nice email from Joanna Daneman who told me my book sounded great but that since she was in the asset management business (i.e, financial advisor type), she may not be able to review my book as it had some element of making money and investing.
The SEC is pretty nasty about their regs with these people. I sent it to her anyway … since she was the only one who asked.
I might try to skip down to rank 160 or so … maybe these people will be a little more real.
Ciao for now
Tags: amazon.com, book reviews, promoting your book, the wealth manifesto
May 15th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
I looked at your recent articles and didn’t see anything about online reviewers. Perhaps I just missed it. Have you done a search for book review blogs? I know there’s a ton for fiction.
There might be a useful article at Midwest Book Review (www.midwestbookreview.com) about finding reviewers.
>>Hi Sandra - thanks for the comment. There are dozens of things that are not yet in here with regards to various options for promoting your books. I am working my way through the ones that I have tried out so far. I have sent books to a few online reviewers and have just not gotten around to writing that up (most of what I have written in the whole week this blog has be around has been in real time…I have some catching up to do!). One place I sent a book to was to http://www.blogcritics.org who I had been told was pretty responsive as they farm out the book reviews to dozens and dozens of volunteer reviewers. I have not heard back from them yet.