Where my last 20 books came from
Everyone else is doing it so I thought I would also participate. I will list where my last 20 books came from and you can ooh and ahh and make a judgemental decision on whether I have enough Integrity to own my own blog and market it the way I do. I am a firm believer in the fact that each of us has our own set of morals to stick by and our own way of running our blogs. I do not think that any of the bloggers I know are lacking in the integrity department and I will not be participating in, joining, or linking to (other than now) to the Blog With Integrity website.
I disclose my material relationships, policies and business practices. My readers will know the difference between editorial, advertorial, and advertising, should I choose to have it. If I do sponsored or paid posts, they are clearly marked.
I do not do paid or advertising posts so I do not need to worry about that. I write honest reviews in my own little way. Now however I disagree that I need to disclose my material relationships, I do not feel like looking up and posting each publisher info for every book I receive for review. It is time consuming and in the end it is my own business.
Nowhere on this site do I read anywhere that states something like “If I accept a book from a publisher I will review it in a timely manner as professionally as I can. I will not add it to my TBR pile of 5,000 books and get to it in the next eon”. Yes I accept books from publishers, but my TBR pile is 3 right now. That’s right 3. Because I believe in making sure I can honor my commitments and that is my form of integrity.
Where I got my last 20 books
- Bran Hambric: Asked for it from the publisher because I wanted to do the blogger contest.
- Sacred Hearts: Won from Library Thing Early Reviewer
- A Worthy Legacy: Not the kind of book I normally read, was offered it by the author and decided to take a chance
- If I Stay: Publicist sent it out
- Speak: Library book
- Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow: Publisher offered after I bought and reviewed another book from the author
- Nightworld Series books 1, 2, & 3: bought from Borders
- The Last Olympian: bought from Amazon
- Dead and Gone Sookie Stackhouse: bought from Amazon
- Follow Me: publicist mailed after pitch letter
- The 8th Confession: received from Publisher to give Patterson a try
- Wintergirls: won from Glue Genie
- The Mortal Instruments Series 3 books: bought from Amazon
- Impossible: bought from Amazon
- Princess of the Midnight Ball: bought Amazon
- Hope for Paws: bought from rescue organization
- Hunted House of Night book 5: bought from Borders
- The Faerie Path Trilogy: bought from Amazon
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: borrowed from a friend
- Cecilia, Memiors of an Heiress: bought from Amazon
- The Summoning: bought from Borders
By: Becky at One Literature Nut
I’ve seen this floating around. I’ve batted around the idea of “disclosing” where my books come from, because I do think it’s interesting to see what we’re reading and why, based on where our books come from. I find that I feel pressure to read the books I’ve been sent or won from Goodreads/LibraryThing, etc. It’s not that I don’t appreciate them, because I DO! I worry that I let them override the other great books I have read about on other people’s blogs or picked up on a trip to the bookstore. Maybe the list will help me reflect and put it all into perspective???
Okay, sorry for meandering through my own thoughts here. Thanks for sharing where you got your books from! You made me think. :)
By: Pam
I am too lazy to change my whole posting system to add where each and every book came from. I think it is great if you want to do that, but you shouldn’t feel obligated to. I have yet to find one of these book bloggers who are doing it all for the free books and only post glorious reviews.
By: Rebecca
Pam,
Great post. I added you to my list on my post.
I have this thing about disclosing all of this info: I tell now whether it is an ARC/ARE but other than that, why does anyone need to know? Plus, I am WAY too scatterbrained to keep up with all of this info. It would be almost impossible for me to do going forward, and very impossible going backwards.