How to Get Reviews for Your Apple iBooks

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Amazon is not the only digital book retailer where reviews are important.  If you are selling your ibooks on Apple, request reviews on this platform as well.  If you fail to get as many reviews on your iBooks products, you may be missing out on an opportunity to sell more copies there.
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How to Post an iBook Review:
Using an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or PC, you can rate and review in the iTunes Store or App Store.  Apple explains on their website:
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Review or rate via iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch:

  • Open the iTunes Store or App Store app.
  • If you’re not signed in, sign in with your Apple ID.
  • Find the item that you want to review, then tap Reviews.
  • Under iTunes Customer Reviews or App Store Customer Reviews, tap Write a Review.
  • If prompted, enter your password.
  • Select a star rating, enter a title, write your review, then tap “Send”.
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Review via iTunes:

  • Open iTunes
  • If you’re not signed in, sign in with your Apple ID.
  • Click iTunes Store.
  • Find the item that you want to review, then click Ratings and Reviews.
  • Under Customer Reviews, click Write a Review.
  • Enter a title, select a star rating, write your review, then click Submit.

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Get Apple’s iBooks Review Codes.
Authors selling directly through iBooks gain 250 promo review codes for each book once they have made a request. According to Apple, these codes can be distributed for reviews, media, and testing.  Once you’ve obtained the codes, you must provide them as quickly as possible because they expire within one month’s time.  By following Apple’s rules for review codes, your books will show up with higher ratings and they will have a much better chance of closing the sale.
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More Than 100 Million Potential Readers.
How many readers in North America alone carrying an iPhone, iPod Touch, or an iPad with them every day?  Well, I can only tell you the numbers from a year ago, according to CNET.com: An estimated total of 94 million iPhones were in use in the US at the end of March, 2015.  And in 2016 it might be well over 100 million in the USA alone.  Add Canada and the rest of the world… and add the owners of the iPod Touch, or an iPad.  Book lovers on all these gadgets can download the iBooks app and read and review books.  If you are not yet a supplier to iBooks, get detailed info in an article by MacWorld.
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iBook App
The iBooks app has the benefit of having been designed by Apple itself.  So it’s no surprise that iBooks sports a slick interface and features a built-in bookstore (free of Apple’s third-party app restrictions).  Fortunately, iBooks has other strengths, most notably including a scrolling view as an alternative to pagination, an automatic night mode that gets toggled depending on the ambient lighting, and the ability to actually copy excerpts from books for sharing or note-taking.
But unlike Kindle, iBooks has no built-in Web browser for opening links embedded in books and instead goes to Safari for that purpose.
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The team from Author Marketing Institute explains in five detailed steps how to obtain your 250 iBooks review codes:

  • Visit iTunes Connect through your Apple account.  You must have “legal level” access to obtain the codes, so it’s best to do this yourself as opposed to letting someone on your team find the codes for you.
  • Click the “My Books” tab and select the book you would like to get codes for.  Click “Promo Codes” and enter the number of codes you would like to download.  You can download up to 250 promotional codes at a time.
  • Click “Download” and make sure to read the Terms of Service agreement for the codes before you approve it.
  • After you go through the above steps, you will receive an email that contains a plain text document with the number of codes you requested.  The email will also include code redemption instructions that you can provide to each person that you send the codes.
  • You must include certain wording when you submit the codes to your readers, so make sure to read all the documents that come with your codes.
  • Send the individual codes to each of your readers and request a review by a few days before the code expiration date.  This will allow for any late reviewers to post it before the codes expire.

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Getting Reviewers on Board.
When self-publishing authors talk about book reviews, they almost solely mean Amazon.  Your true reader fans won’t mind taking a few extra seconds to post a modified version of their Amazon review on iBooks.  It’s just a matter of asking them.  You may feel as though you are inconveniencing your readers by asking them to do extra work for you, but it’s a necessary evil.

The readers who love your work want you to succeed. Getting more reviews on iBooks will do that.  It is a win-win situation, so it’s definitely in your best interest to go through the above process and get reviews on all your Apple books.

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