Let’s face it – reviews help to sell books.
Just think about it. You’re standing in the book store trying to decide if the brand new book of pickled pig feet recipes is REALLY worth pulling the money out of your pocket and purchasing and your very best friend walks up to you and says
“Oh, are you buying a copy of UNCLE BOB’S PICKLED PIG FEET RECIPES? I bought a copy and I absolutely loved it!”
Right off the bat you’d buy a copy of your own.
Or else you’d ask your friend if you could borrow and photocopy her copy – but do you REALLY want to be THAT kind of a friend?
I’ve been really excited to hear that Kobo was instituting a brand new review system for their e-books. Folks who have been using Kobo for a while know that they used to link to the Goodreads review site – but discontinued that shortly after Goodreads was bought out by Amazon.
I had known this was coming for some time now but I’ve been waiting for Kobo to make it official.
Well – it is official now.
In the near future, Kobo will begin featuring book reviews! Customers will be able to write reviews and choose star ratings for your titles and post them on the book page.
That’s right. If you have read a book on Kobo you can write a review on it.
Here’s how:
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Click on this link: http://evocalize.com/consumer/business/520e6ea22f18b/search?term=Bella+Andre
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Input your name in place of the author name in the link, separated by a +
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If your author name includes initials, make sure you separate them by an extra + like this: http://evocalize.com/consumer/business/520e6ea22f18b/search?term=J+F+Penn
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Hit enter. You should now see a page listing all your books. By clicking on a title, your readers can leave a review and they can also BUY from this page!
So – if any of you folks out there have read and enjoyed one of my books – PLEASE, feel free to leave me a review!
That goes for
Just click on one of those covers and leave a review!
You can read the official Kobo announcement right here!
yours in storytelling,
Steve Vernon
