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Originally Posted by nekokami
Thanks for the links, folks!
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You are welcome
The beauty of it is that if you like sff, using the links on these sites it's very, very likely you will find people who share your tastes and have the energy and time to keep them up.
Once in a while I used to want to do a blog review too, but it's just too much work to do it properly, so I used just to do mini-reviews on sffworld and more recently copy and paste to Goodreads since that is a great place to keep track of books read, to read, to get - but then Robert offered me the opportunity to put up reviews of current mostly sf and weird mainstream books I really loved to complement his more fantasy oriented reading.
SFSite, SFRevu and several others multi-review sites are very good but they update once or twice a month and perforce look at only a limited slice of the new sff and related books every month - Emerald City was similar of course but the reviews there are just unbeatable. It's a big pity Ms. Morgan could not sustain the pace though of course it's understandable considering the staggering amount of work involved for which you may get arcs from publishers but are unpaid otherwise and even get nasty criticism once in a while
Regarding e-only books - most book lovers out there do not like them so far, so they shy away from them. Robert put up a review of mine of a recent e-only short novel from a small press and if some more new releases like that cross my path I am ready to read them and ask Robert if he is willing to put them up.
Anyway it does not hurt to ask reviewers to look at e-books. One big problem I encountered though is the perception - which is more widely held than I thought - that e-book readers only pirate books to read them for free. I am doing my best to educate people, but it's not easy for various reasons...