Equally, self-published authors are usually not represented by a third party who can best marry up book with reviewer, and, as more importantly, make decisions about which books should go out to the reviewers and which should not.
Royall filed a defamation suit against Main, her publisher, a legal prof who wrote a blurb for the book, a reviewer and two newspaper companies.
After that, while no one reads the same book, this reviewer says The Mobile Wave is about how disruptive technologies lead to huge economic leaps that enhance our health and social wellbeing.
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That reviewer gave the book four out of five stars.
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For that reason, this reviewer opened his new book with some trepidation: would Mr Stiglitz now say that the American economy would have performed so much better if only Bill Clinton and others had taken his advice when he was on the White House's Council of Economic Advisers in 1993-97?
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So far, there seems to be agreement that the authors have pulled it off: To date every reviewer on Amazon has given the book a full five stars.
Her father, Clifton Fadiman, who died in June at the age of 95, was a reviewer, critic, essayist and general book collector.
This reviewer's choice as the best book of the year, however, goes to a slim volume put out by Oxford University Press that deserves to be a classic.
They have a really simple Interior Reviewer that gives you a sample look of the book layout.
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Of course, not every book blogger is good, just like not every mainstream media reviewer is good, or every author (traditionally published or otherwise).
Disclosure: The reviewer was provided with an advance copy of the book, and has neither received nor been promised any compensation for this review or otherwise.
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This book is so good that rivals in the field will, like this reviewer, put it down not knowing whether to feel inspiration or despair.
Christine Geoffroy's book is equally accessible, but not (at least to this Anglo-Saxon reviewer) as much fun.
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