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Old 10-08-2016, 09:40 PM   #60
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Definitely a good move. We don't allow reviews in exchange for free books at MR precisely because they'll inevitably be biased (has anyone ever seen a bad "honest review I wrote in exchange for a free book"?).
I've written solidly negative reviews for ARCs, absolutely. However, reviews for ARCs in systems such as Netgalley are not provided "in exchange for a free book". The eARCs are time-limited and generally expire around the publication date. ARCs are offered to readers in the hope that they might write a review, but readers are not required to review every ARC they receive. I have a middling sort of review ratio and write negative as well as positive reviews, and this doesn't seem to have stopped publishers from offering me ARCs.
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