Those
of you who know me know that besides being an author, know that I’m a rather
voracious Book Reviewer who has a policy of not accepting requests to review a
book:
I currently have 834
reviews on Amazon with an Amazon Reviewer Ranking of 1,422.
If I don’t obtain a copy
of a book personally, I get them through the myriad of giveaways authors have through
their FaceBook, blog/web site, which is in additional to the old standard GoodReads
and LibraryThing. Recently I’ve found my way to the giveaways Amazon has on its
site, and they’ve proved to be a far more fruitful site in obtaining books.
If you go to the giveaway
site you’ll find a vast variety of products being made available. As with all
giveaways you find several kinds of giveaway for books. While some are a simple
click the ENTER button, others require you to follow someone or view a video for
30 seconds before you’re permitted to hit the ENTER button.
As for the giveaways
themselves, there are several varieties. Some are based on being entered in a
drawing at the end of the giveaway, some are a random selection [every eligible
entry has 1 in 100 chance to win, up to 2 winners], and some are based on being
the nth request to enter the giveaway [every 50th eligible entry will win, up
to 10 winners.] It is this type of giveaway which might cause you to want to
check what’s happening with the book giveaways. I’m saying this because on more
than one occasion I won a giveaway because of the following: [Every 2nd
eligible entry will win, up to 50 winners.] As you can see only 100 individuals
need to enter the giveaway before the giveaway has ended, which theoretically could
be in about an hour considering all of the individuals looking at the giveaways.
As I’ve stated, I’ve found
the Amazon giveaway site to fruitful in obtaining books, I’ve won 13 books so
far in the past 14 days. Here’s the link to the Amazon giveaways:
I hope this information
has proven to be useful
