You’ve poured your heart into your manuscript.
Now it’s time to make sure the world sees its value.
In today’s crowded book marketplace, a professional review acts as a clear signal of quality. It can help shift your book from “indie project” to “serious contender” in the eyes of bookstores, libraries, and dedicated readers. Reader reviews are wonderful for social proof, but professional reviews add the level of industry credibility that often helps self-published authors access opportunities that might otherwise be out of reach.
To support you in that process, IngramSpark has partnered with four respected professional review services, so you can give your book the competitive edge and discoverability it deserves.
Why Professional Review Services?
Here’s how professional review services can support your book at every stage, from initial launch to long-term author branding.
- Credibility: A professional review offers an objective, third-party assessment of a book’s quality.
- Discoverability: Professional reviews increase exposure beyond an author’s immediate network including libraries, bookstores, wholesalers, and industry databases.
- Marketing Power: Publishers and authors can pull quotes from professional reviews for book covers, social media, email campaigns, and retailer pitches.
- Industry Access: Librarians, booksellers, and media professionals often rely on established review sources when making purchasing decisions.
- Long-Term Positioning: Beyond immediate sales, professional reviews contribute to an authors’ brand and reputation.
IngramSpark is proud to partner with four professional review services.
A BookLife Review is a respectful, knowledgeable 300-word review that includes information designed to help in the marketing of your book, all crafted by a professional Publishers Weekly reviewer who is an expert in the genre or field of your book.
- Get professional assessment of your book from a Publisher's Weekly reviewer, plus marketing insights to help you reach the right readers
- Normally $399, discounted at $324 exclusively for IngramSpark authors
- Backed by Publisher's Weekly credibility
- Dual exposure to consumers and the industry
- Structured, Transparent Review Format
IndieReader’s fair, professionally written reviews provide meaningful feedback and quotable insights that help you market your books and build credibility.
- Honest, credible reviews written by journalists, editors, librarians, and authors who know books
- Normally $299, now $249 for IngramSpark authors and publishers
- Award and recognition opportunities
- Strengthens professional positioning
- Clear, usable format
- No AI ever; real reviews by trusted professionals
Special Offer for IngramSpark Authors - BlueInk Review ™ offers professional book reviews of independently published and self-published books.
- Expert reviewers with deep publishing experience
- Normally $445, now $345 for IngramSpark authors and publishers
- Visibility and syndication in bookseller and librarian databases
- Notable book seals
- High-profile exposure opportunities
- Booklist Magazine
- Shelf Unbound Magazine
- Goodreads
- BlueInk's monthly newsletter
By purchasing a Get Your Book Reviewed by Kirkus Reviews indie review, authors can have the opportunity to build some name recognition and get noticed by agents, publishers and other industry influencers. Kirkus has been an industry-trusted source for honest and accessible reviews since 1933 and has helped countless authors build credibility in the publishing realm ever since.
- Credibility: A professional review offers an objective, third-party assessment of a book's quality.
- Discoverability: Professional reviews increase exposure beyond an author's immediate network including libraries, bookstores, wholesalers, and industry databases.
- Marketing Power: Publishers and authors can pull quotes from professional reviews for book covers, social media, email campaigns, and retailer pitches.
- Industry Access: Librarians, booksellers, and media professionals often rely on established review sources when making purchasing decisions.
- Long-term Positioning: Beyond immediate sales, professional reviews contribute to an author's brand and reputation.
Your book is a serious contender—it’s time the industry knew it.
Professional reviews are more than just feedback; they are marketing assets that last the lifetime of your book. Choose the review service that best fits your genre and goals, and start opening doors to bookstores and libraries everywhere.
Get started with IngramSpark’s review partners here.
