NetGalley or Direct copies for review?

[Rachel Firasek]

I'm helping a new review site decide if they should pay the big bucks for NetGalley or if reviewers prefer to get their copies from direct houses. I'd love your comments or advice. Thanks!

[Dana Burgess]

I have no idea what net gallery is. I tried to google it but I'm still in the dark. Someone enlighten me, please. As for where I get the books I review - I really don't care where they come from. I don't pay to join sites, though, there are enoug good free ones.

Dana

http://letsbookit.blogspot.com

[Kelli Wheelwright]

Being a member of NetGalley is free for reviewers. You can access ARCs there from publishing houses big and small.

 

KW

[Coreena McBurnie]

Net Galley is free for reviewers.  You can go to their website here http://www.netgalley.com/ and check out what they are.  There are several publishers who offer their galleys for review and you can choose which ones you want.

[Kelli Wheelwright]

I love picking up books at NetGalley. It is well known and easy to access. Sometimes little known or smaller publishers have better luck through outlets like NetGalley.

 

Best of luck!

KW

http://www.ekfamilybooks.blogspot.com

 

[Dana Burgess]

OK - so I was googling the wrong thing. Thank you KW for straightening me out! I see it is only for digital reads. Doesn't anyone read paper anymore? I'm beginning to feel like a dinosaur! ;o)

[Evangeline Han]

I so agree with you! More and more major publishing houses are opting for NetGalley. It's a pity, really. For those of us with no ereader, reviewing books from NetGalley is quite a problem.

[Kelli Wheelwright]

I have actually made contact with a couple of the publishing houses through NetGalley and requested paper copies. Not all of them will send one out, but Harlequin sent me a paper copy of a book I was requesting and so did a couple others. I was even added to Harlequin's paper list- so when they have something they think would suit me, they send it out!

 

Never hurts to ask :)

 

KW

 

[Elizabeth W.]

I feel your pain, Dana. Ebooks kind of give me the creeps. I will at some point cave in and get an e-reader because I see the point. Kind of. Especially when I'm packing for a vacation, or thinking about reading Sherlock Holmes.

 

If it helps--- I'm way too young to be a dinosaur. So it's not like a "in my day we had paper and liked it" reaction. I like the tactile sense of books and pages, and I would miss that.

[Kelli Wheelwright]

I sometimes miss paper books when I have been reading a lot on my Kindle, but I also miss some of the conveniences of the Kindle when I read a paperback- its a trade off.

 

KW

http://www.ekfamilybooks.blogspot.com

 

[Elsie Love]

I cannot believe how expensive Net Galley is! I was really excited about the idea; but the price made it a definite no for me.

[Elsie Love]

Reviewers LOVE Net Galley...books are FREE.  But, what about writers? $225.00 a month to list titles! How cana  small pub afford that?

[V Taylor]

Although NetGalley provides ARC egalleys to its reviewers you don't have to have an ereader to actually read them. You can simply download the egalley and read them using Adobe Digital Editions on a computer.