Readers, Fans, or Unpaid Laborers?
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Here’s one of those not-so-secret secrets of the book business: we authors are encouraged to put together “street teams” of readers who get advanced reader’s copies (ARCs) ahead of the official publication date and can thereby choose to leave a review on Goodreads or Amazon or whatever platform they feel like. You, loyal reader, by […]