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Originally Posted by tompe
Reviewers usually get sent a lot of books for free. And they do not review all of them. So in a sense they get paid by the publisher by not having to buy any books.
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Keep in mind they often are "uncorrected proofs" with no cover art and, you know, no corrections.
So not much payment. They're not worth keeping or reselling--I might offer them to a friend, but when they come back I recycle them. I did, of course, get to read it for free, but I could theoretically get that from the public library.
I wish more publishers would use digital galleys! I guess they figure I'm going to paper the internet with them, because I have no integrity. It's not like I asked for a kickback or anything.
I know of one author who gets a lot of bad reviews (her stuff is kind of love/hate with little in-between) and she gets on her mailing list and Facebook and begs her fanpoodles to put up positive reviews, which they do.
The point is to actually READ the user reviews, and a variety of them--don't just trust the average. One one-star eejit doesn't discount the thoughtful reviewers.