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Originally Posted by Tome Keeper
I agree to disagree. If a company is asking you to review a product (which sending an ARC be it electronic or paperback is) then it is not the same as picking up a book off your own back and reviewing it. In the first case a disclosure should be made but in the second case there is no need. Companies don't send ARCs to be nice, they send them with the hope/expectation that you will review them which will encourage others to read the book. I personally just put an [ARC provided by x] at the end of my reviews to avoid any issues (as unlikely as they may be).
I guess this is why it is discussed so much in book reviewing circles, as there are different interpretations.
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entirely definitely matter. It's now becomes a moral question in that case of rather it is the right thing to do for readers to know where you read the story from.
It's not that I don't think people should tell where they got their copy from. I think it's a good idea to tell but I just don't think it falls under the FTC rules as a compensation because you are not being compensating. Now if they paid me something to read the book and write a review then it would fall under the law you mention or if I actually got a finished copy of the book when done reading it then yes it would fall under that law.
ARCs I get are not even ebooks really they are mess of a word doc put into pdf or epub format that I the reviewer have to decipher and imagine what the finish copy will look like and have all those errors and formatting corrected.