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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
When an author or publisher contacts someone without his or her consent, then I call that spam and I call the author or publisher a spammer.
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I beg to differ. If an author sends links to his or her ebook in the message (like what the OP says), then yes it is spam. If it is a simple first-time contact, asking if the blogger is interested in reviewing his or her ebook (with NO links included, just book description), then that blanket rule would make most indie authors spammers really, coz unless he is some Stephen King, bloggers or reviewers are NOT going to contact the author on their own; usually the author has to contact them (a lot of creditable review bloggers are too busy anyways to take on new review requests, last time I checked; FB is a much better option).
My 2 cents
