Booksprout Reviews

Blocking doesn t work and company knows it

When you block a reader they are not really blocked The company is terrible and knows their system is broken but doesn t care

Not for SFF authors

Probably okay for romance authors not so much for other genres Their sci-fi fantasy reader population is very low which is something they don t publicize But the good reviews of this site are all from romance authors the bad are from SFF authors because no one picks up those books I have a nice professional cover a good blurb--and only had one participant join my campaign even after repeatedly advertising it with the appropriate hashtags There s no place where authors can recruit or talk to booksprout readers to recruit them as those are reader only spaces like on FB nor is there a way to have BS feature your book in any way so my book was buried on like page 40 of fantasy for most of the enrollment period Readers aren t scrolling that far They should be more open about their reader genre populations They should also allow you to carry over the slots you PAID for to future campaigns I literally paid for a certain number of reader slots on my campaign If I could use those unused slots for my second book when it s released I might give BS another shot because what could it hurt But as is I ve just thrown my money down the drain and there s no way to recover that loss with them Also piracy s a big risk with them which I didn t realize before

Not worth it waste of money

Booksprout is a fraud and I will explain to you why I bought a package for new author monthly or something of that sort By the end of the period when I had authorized them to give out my ARC there was only one subscriber and I took time to note down the name of the person I requested them to refund me due to poor performance and they did a good thing To my surprise I had an email from them a week after saying a reviewer had withdrawn his review and I saw this message apparently written by the new reviewer Not my type of book but others may enjoy it The funny thing is that this isn t the reviewer who downloaded the ARC it is a new reviewer but my book had ONLY one downloader and it s not this person is it a coincidence that I asked for a refund and this reaction from them yes I think so Also they did their best to place this review by a reviewer from the same reviewer for another book author with 5 stars lol

very difficult to leave a review particularly on Amazon

Book sprout makes it very difficult to leave a review particularly on Amazon I cannot find the url on my kindle fire to paste into book sprout from my Amazon review Not an easy process and no help menu to assist with this issue

Don t ever register with Book Sprout

Don t ever register with Book Sprout and waste your time and money They are total cheaters They take 9 monthly but do nothing Shameless readers also read the books free of cost and never leave their reviews These people should be kicked off Book Spouts are total cheaters and this is not the right platform Instead you can get organic reviews from your family and friends once they buy your book Book Sprout - Down Down

Booksprout perhaps full of good intentions but at present a disaster

Very simply I have paid for a billing campaign in which my reviewers are meant to be managed for me I have set up my books and set up all they ask for but their system does not work and I am constantly fobbed off with answers like No one else has any problems or Try starting again yet I paid them more than a week ago it s 54 Euros per month and I am worried as I get no real help at all I know this is a new page for them but they need to liaise with paid up customers I have been tolerant and patient but the days roll by and nothing

The continuing Saga of BOOKSPROUT

The continuing Saga The have refunded me my fee of 59 and I have purchased a new package for 26 However on going into the site I see that they have removed the review info I painstakingly included and the book edit system does not edit Yet there is no service on hand to help me I am doing my very best to get there with this site but am beginning to doubt that they have any idea of what they are about

I suggest booksprout close down

I suggest booksprout close down Since 2018 I have only ever had one review she was a nice lady Its apparent that booksprout lost the plot long ago and should stop fibbing