Book Reviews To Promote Your Title – Whether in print publications, or online, a good book review is a definite source of book publicity. Also, contrary to popular belief, it isn’t always best to be featured in a major newspaper. Sometimes, your review will get you more book sales if it appears in a niche publication.
A book review is a form of literary criticism in which a book is analyzed based on content, style, and merit. A book review can be a primary source opinion piece, summary review or scholarly review. Books can be reviewed for printed periodicals, magazines and newspapers, as school work, or for book web sites on the Internet. A book review’s length may vary from a single paragraph to a substantial essay. Such a review may evaluate the book on the basis of personal taste. Reviewers may use the occasion of a book review for a display of learning or to promulgate their own ideas on the topic of a fiction or non-fiction work.
There are a number of journals devoted to book reviews, and reviews are indexed in databases such as Kirkus Reviews; but many more book reviews can be found in newspaper databases as well as scholarly databases and discipline-specific databases.
