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All About Editorial Reviews for Your Book

7 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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YouTube video (Julie Broad, with guest Sarah) explaining editorial reviews for books. The speakers define editorial reviews as critiques published by periodicals, newspapers, magazines, journalists, or industry outlets; note these reviews are sometimes paid for but often are independent and aimed at the outlet's audience rather than the author. The guest emphasizes the author has little control over editorial reviews and that reviews can be negative if the reviewer disagrees with the book.

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Moving on to the next kind of review. Editorial Reviews Editorial reviews are critiques. These are often paid for, but can also be things that a journalist or a magazine just write about you and your book. Anyway, I'll cut to where Sarah is diving right into these so you can hear it straight from her.
This could be periodicals, a newspaper, magazines, journalists, and even industry outlets. The purpose of an editorial review is to educate that outlet's audience on whether or not the book is new, newsworthy, what's coming up, what's worth their audience reading. So it is an important thing that you realize as the author that these reviews are not happening for you. They're happening for that outlet's audience. The author really has no control over what these editorial reviews are going to say. It's at the discretion of the reviewer. So sometimes they can be bad. If the reviewer did not agree with that book and you really have no way of controlling that.