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I AM NOT RESPONDING TO UNSOLICITED REVIEW REQUESTS
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How I Review:
I have accepted books from those who expect a review at some time in the future. It will be an honest review, which could mean a not- so- positive or even a negative one, whatever my personal opinions may be. Do not expect a positive review. I give positive reviews if the book warrants it. I am also not an overly critical reviewer as I do not take satisfaction of ripping apart an author's pride and joy. I will state why I don't like the book but I do not point out each and every discrepancy that I found. When other reviewers do that I find it tedious while it shows immaturity and narcissism on their part, however, I will always point out why I felt negatively about a part of a book.
What I Review:
With that said, I also must state that I have come to the point that after three years of book reviewing that I do not accept books that do not fit into my favorite niches of genres of historical fiction and non-fiction; I personally request many books from my favorite authors so that I know in advance there is a strong chance I will enjoy the book. I do not like wasting my time (or an author's time) with books that I know are not up my alley, and this selective process helps keep my ratings high in my book reviews.
I have accepted books from those who expect a review at some time in the future. It will be an honest review, which could mean a not- so- positive or even a negative one, whatever my personal opinions may be. Do not expect a positive review. I give positive reviews if the book warrants it. I am also not an overly critical reviewer as I do not take satisfaction of ripping apart an author's pride and joy. I will state why I don't like the book but I do not point out each and every discrepancy that I found. When other reviewers do that I find it tedious while it shows immaturity and narcissism on their part, however, I will always point out why I felt negatively about a part of a book.
What I Review:
With that said, I also must state that I have come to the point that after three years of book reviewing that I do not accept books that do not fit into my favorite niches of genres of historical fiction and non-fiction; I personally request many books from my favorite authors so that I know in advance there is a strong chance I will enjoy the book. I do not like wasting my time (or an author's time) with books that I know are not up my alley, and this selective process helps keep my ratings high in my book reviews.
I AM NOT RESPONDING TO UNSOLICITED REVIEW REQUESTS
Formats:
I accept only printed material for review: printed galleys, ARC's, paperbacks and hardcovers.
The Disclosure:
I do not use this blog to ENDORSE books for the publisher/author, I state my opinion which is requested of me. I do not consider receiving books as compensation for a review; true compensation would be paying me an hourly wage for the time it takes to read a book, and write the review on the book (and to host the website). I do this as a hobby. This blogger is not affiliated with a specific publisher or author and does not receive monetary compensation from any of the above. I disclose in each of my reviews the source of my books. Most are sent by a publisher or author, others are bought via used bookstores, Paperbackswap; and some may be gifted from giveaways.
I have stated before that I have set up an Amazon Affiliates store, so if you click a very specific Amazon link and actually purchase that very specific book through that link or through the storefront, then I will receive 1-2% of that purchase. It hasn't happened yet even though I know someone purchased something using that store I set up. Who knows what the point is, but I do add books to that store from time to time that you may find intriguing.
As of April 2012: I currently have 476 followers who follow through the Google Friend Connect, along with another group of around 30 who subscribe to my posts via email. When I post to the blog, it automatically gets tweeted and Facebooked (and emailed to subscribers). As an example, I received 4,786 pageviews for the month of February, where I posted 5 reviews that month. March 2012 received 5,573 pageviews.
If you scroll to very bottom of this webpage you will see about three different "page counters" installed that shows how many hits this site has had since I installed the counters.
Traffic Rank: Top 11.09 % according to Alexa, an online service that measures traffic for millions of sites on the Internet in a similar way to Nielsen television show ratings.
The Burton Review has an Alexa rank of 3,447,983 which is in the top 11.09 % of all websites.
The website burtonreview.blogspot.com ranks 222,983 of the 3,363,855 websites that have been ranked so far. I was on my own domain until technical issues with Google went haywire, and Google refused to help me get my domain back. TheBurtonReview dot com points to a fake site, you can find the real 'me' at http://www.burtonbookreview.com/
