Alliteration Ink Privacy Policy

reviewpolicy.html

	<div id="lcol"><!-- left column -->
		<div id="lcontent">
			<h1>review <span>policy</span></h1>
				<h3>introduction</h3>
					<p>I never considered that people would game the system.</p>
					<p>It's not innocence, really.  It's just an alien concept to me.</p>
					<p>The point of a review is to steer people toward books they’d enjoy, and away from those they would not.  (I wrote years ago about <a href="http://www.adotas.com/2007/11/keeping-it-real-customer-service-as-interactive-advertising/" target="blank">the necessity of having honest reviews</a>, and my opinion hasn't changed.  As both a publisher and author, I am <strong>not</strong> interested in tricking anyone into buying a book.  I am interested in selling them a book they'll <strong>enjoy</strong>.</p>
					<p>It is <em>critical</em> that you, the reader, can trust my reviews and reviews of my books.</p>
					<p>Always.</p>
				<h3>policy</h3>
					<p>As Alliteration Ink:</p>
					<p>
					<ol>
						<li>I will, at my discretion, provide review copies to reviewers.  Reviewers in this sense may be private individuals, companies, professional bloggers, or regular folks.  Reviewers should disclose that they received a review copy.</li>
						<li>I will encourage all readers to honestly review the books I publish.  This means that if you like it, say what you liked.  If you don’t like a book, say what you didn’t like.  Tastes vary;  I remember a local movie reviewer whose tastes were almost exactly opposite my own.</li>
						<li>I will never, ever pay (or otherwise provide extra compensation aside from the review copy itself) for a good or positive review.  Likewise, a negative review will not disqualify someone from getting a review copy in the future.</li>
						<li>I may ask individuals if they would review a book for consideration for a recommendation for an award.  I will not trade recommendations or directly solicit recommendations for awards.  Being provided a copy for consideration is not presumed to be equal to a recommendation for an award, whether I provide the copy to another or someone provides a copy of their book to me.</li>
						<li>Authors, editors, and other persons working with Alliteration Ink should likewise never pay for a positive review.</li>
						<li>Authors should never review their own books and stories.  Authors who are in anthologies and review the other stories in that anthology must, at a bare minimum, disclose that they have a story in the anthology.  I <i>discourage</i> reviewing anthologies you're in other than on your own blog or social media page.</li>
						<li>Those who have a connection to the author(s) in the book(s) they’re reviewing should disclose that fact at the beginning of the review.</li>
					</ol>
					</p>
					<p>A copy of this policy (in HTML) is available at <a href="https://gist.github.com/4664395" target="_blank">https://gist.github.com/4664395</a> to provide transparency for revisions over time.</p>
		</div>
	</div>