Bookseller – Writing Reviews

Reviews can be submitted in various areas on Edelweiss.

One option is locating a title in one of your homepage widgets, clicking in to view its details, and selecting the Review icon:

Reviews can also be submitted from within a catalog, on the Review Copies page, or while viewing another title list as shown below:

On your Review Copies page, there are areas for “Downloaded” and “Downloaded, Not Reviewed” titles. Note that all titles you have opened in Edelweiss Reader will also show up on this list.

Select “Downloaded, Not Reviewed” to see the titles you have downloaded but have yet to review.

Clicking Review will bring up a screen where you can rate various attributes of a title, write a review, and decide who can see it.

Note, you can select which attributes you’d like to rate (or not) by selecting More Ratings and choosing a rating between 1 and 10 for each attribute.

You can decide to send the review to the publisher (and/or share with your friends and colleagues), and, under Nominate, choose whether you’d like to submit to IndieNext, Libro.FM, etc.

Please note that only members of the ABA Community will see the “Indie Next List nominations” option. Learn more about nominating titles for IndieNext and Libro.fm here.

Sharing with colleagues, friends, the publisher, and your communities is separate from nominating titles for lists like IndieNext and Libro.FM, so note that you can share a review without nominating a title, or you can nominate a title without sharing that review with your friends or communities, for example.

Note that your reviews will be visible to your friends and any users in the Communities with whom you share them. If you’re a bookseller, you’re likely affiliated with the ABA, and so other ABA users will see your reviews and shelf activity, and you will see theirs when you share your reviews within those Communities. (More about Communities here.) Choosing to send your review to the publisher will make that review visible to people associated with that publishing house, including publicity, sales reps, etc., and they may use your review in their marketing efforts. Nominating your review for IndieNext will send your review right to the ABA, and it will be counted as an IndieNext nomination for a title; the ABA may select your review for the IndieNext newsletter, website, or other marketing materials.

Giving a title an 8 or higher automatically gives it a “Much Love” rating, which adds it to the total Much Love count seen for each title:

The number indicates that 45 Edelweiss users gave this title Much Love. Click that number to see who those folks are, and how they break down according to user-type (bookseller, librarian, blogger, etc.)

Note that clicking the Much Love heart (🖤) icon automatically assigns a review rating of 9 to that title.

Publishers have the opportunity, on their side, to Feature reviews that they especially appreciate. Featured Reviews can be found as shown below. Again, just click to see those reviews.

Your Review Copies page will also show titles that you’ve downloaded but have not yet reviewed:

Keep track of all your reviews on the Reviews page.

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Bookseller – Writing Reviews