‘…so that I do not say them somewhere where I will start a fight:’ I truly despise the pay-for-reviews system that exists in the periphery of the self-publishing ecosystem. It’s predatory, it’s expensive, it plays on fear and desperation – and, most damningly, it doesn’t work. Readers don’t actually care about purchased reviews. Certainly not enough to be worth the money it takes to buy one! Kirkus, for example, will charge you four hundred and fifty bucks for a 250 word review, deliverable in seven to nine weeks, annnnnnnd that’s pretty much it.
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