Are you not supposed to sell those?
No, you're not. You can give them away, but you can't sell them. Borders used to give away Advanced Readers to employees.
I already know what I'm gonna call her. Got a name all picked out...
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
sj - Oct 24, 2012 8:44:06 am PDT #19994 of 28344
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Jesse - Oct 24, 2012 8:45:49 am PDT #19995 of 28344
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Huh! I've only ever gotten them second-hand, myself. (From friends in publishing, etc.)
Consuela - Oct 24, 2012 9:01:24 am PDT #19996 of 28344
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yeah, what's apparently illegal is the failure to disclose. Although I think the publishers should know that her reviews are bullshit, in that she can't possibly be actually reading them all, and in some instances appears to be merely rewriting the jacket copy.
Jesse - Oct 24, 2012 9:02:44 am PDT #19997 of 28344
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's a plus to the publisher, no?
Amy - Oct 24, 2012 9:10:32 am PDT #19998 of 28344
Because books.
As far as I know, no publisher out there takes her seriously anyway.
Kate P. - Oct 24, 2012 9:51:08 am PDT #19999 of 28344
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Are you not supposed to sell those? I think the place I sell books explicitly says they do buy advance proofs and etc.
Huh, Jesse, I would be surprised at that. I know a few bookstores that buy/sell advance copies, but none that advertise doing so, since it's generally prohibited, if not outright illegal.
Jesse - Oct 24, 2012 9:54:49 am PDT #20000 of 28344
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I will look again! Maybe it says they don't.
§ ita § - Oct 24, 2012 10:14:39 am PDT #20001 of 28344
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have to say--I love online detective work, when it's used to ferret out frauds and not creepy stalkering stuff.
Consuela - Oct 24, 2012 11:14:37 am PDT #20002 of 28344
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
As far as I know, no publisher out there takes her seriously anyway.
But why then send her these free copies to review?
Amy - Oct 24, 2012 11:23:06 am PDT #20003 of 28344
Because books.
She's been doing it forever? There are dozens of teen book bloggers who request ARCs and get them, and most of them aren't really professional. All I know is we never used her reviews for any of the romances of ours she reviewed.
This is one of the reason publishers have gone to NetGalley for review purposes. It's cheaper, and it means fewer physical copies of the books are floating around.