The Purpose of Book Review
Table of Contents
- How Long Should a Book Review Be?
- Content and Style
- Formatting a Book Review and Its Structure
- Book Review Template Writing Hints
- Book Review Template to Read [You Just Don’t Understand by Deborah Tannen]
- Use Our ‘Help me Write Greatest Book Review’ Option
- Let Us Handle Your Book Review Assignments
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A book review serves the purpose of helping others to decide if they should or want to read a particular book or not. This is done by reading and evaluating a given book, and summing it up in terms of how well it has been written and/or how well the author has handled the subject matter. A review can explore the positive or negative elements [or both] of a book.
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Why are book reviews important for authors?
Being an author is just like running any business. Reviews will help build your credibility and integrity and encourage new customers [readers] to try your product [books]. Reviews can help both author and readers in many ways; from sales to giving your audience a voice.
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Book Reviews Can Increase Sales
Book Reviews Help You to Understand What Your Readers Want
Book Reviews Help You to Craft and Improve Your Writing
Reviews Speak for Your Book
Book Reviews Are Essential to Building Your Brand as an Author
Saves Time, Decreases Risk to Readers
Book reviews make books a known quantity. They decrease the risk to readers that a particular book will be not what they had in mind at all. In fact, book reviews help potential readers become familiar with what a book is about, give them an idea of how they themselves might react to it and determine whether this particular book will be the right book for them right now.
Book reviews save readers time, prepare them for what they will find and offer them a greater chance of connecting with a particular book, even before they read the first page!
Greater Visibility, Greater Chance of Getting Found
Book reviews give books greater visibility and a greater chance of getting found by more readers.
On some websites, books that have more book reviews are more likely to be shown to prospective readers and buyers as compared to books with few or no book reviews.
Book reviews also help amplify your book’s reach among book clubs, bookstores, blogging communities and other opportunities to gain attention from new readers.
For an author, book reviews can open doors to new and bigger audiences.