Has book blogging hit the wall? A marketing department email sent to bloggers on Thursday by William Morrow, a division of HarperCollins, indicates some kind of horizon is in sight. What's on that horizon? The end of the flow of free books, which will soon be reduced to a trickle."
Message is essentially: if you don't review enough of the books we send you, in the timeframe we want you to, you're out," Rebecca Joines Schinsky tweeted Thursday. Schinsky, who writes and edits The Book Lady's Blog, is one of the leaders of the latest generation of committed book bloggers. - LA Times
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I haven't read the article in its entirety, but I guess I can understand where they're coming from. ARC's are sent out for free in the hopes of creating hype over early reviews - if they're not being done in a timely fashion, then the hype desired isn't being created.
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