The older I get, the more I find I have to clarify my own
words after the fact. I wouldn't want anyone out there to
think that I'm not appreciative of internet reviewers. My
last two books have been reviewed far more extensively on the
internet than in newspapers or magazines, so I'm deeply
indebted to internet reviewers. But there are people out
there who are more into getting and selling free books than
providing the service they promise in return. To find out who
those people are, one only has to look on the Amazon pages
for used copies of a book that is about to be released or has
been released very recently. Some of those books are being
sold by legit dealers who actually purchased a copy at a
discount, others (usually the cheapest copies) are coming
from the scammers I mentioned earlier. Almost every copy of
the book that I bought off the Amazon used pages contained
the publicity material the publicist included in the review
copies. They got it for free and immediately
put it on the market. It's annoying that these
resources - packing and shipping costs, the publicists' time,
the book itself - are being used up, only to have the review
copies compete with the books that are for sale in the
marketplace. It's even more annoying that legitimate internet
reviewers might be denied access to a book because one of
these characters beat them to the request and the books
alloted have been distributed to people who have no intention
of even trying to read the book.
TL
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