Snark Week: Day 5 ~ Snark Visual: Selling of ARC's

So today is the fifth day of Snark Week! It went really fast and since I didn't get to post my post yesterday, due to a blog tour.  I'm decided I would, in fact post today's.

Today's Topic

Day 5 – Snark Visual – Snark isn’t the same without animated gifs – review a book, or post about a snarky topic with the use of animated gifs

So today, I want to talk about a topic that has been on my mind recently.  Again I do not mean to upset anyone, this is my own opinion and of course you are entitled to your own.

Lately, I have noticed that there are a few bloggers and even publicists selling ARC's to a certain store.  No I'm not going to mention the store because well I don't want to get in trouble.  This store buys the books from the bloggers and then sells them.  Which is wrong, especially when the arc says NOT FOR SALE right on the cover.

 I have said something to this store about it and they state that their lawyer says its in their right to do this.

 I don't understand how this is okay or why they aren't getting in trouble for this! I went to a convention a few months ago and actually heard a certain publicist talking about taking some arcs to this same store and I asked her why she would do this and how she thought that it was okay to sell them.  She replied that it was the way things work. 

What do you think I should do? IS there anything I can do, I don't think this is okay and I don't think that the publishers or authors know about this.  Or should I do anything and just ignore it? I'm at a loss as of what to do really. I would really love to hear other bloggers (reviewers) thoughts on this one.

 

Again thanks to Parajunkee for hosting Snark Week, it was a lot of fun! 

Snark Week Day #2: Feeding Frenzy!

It's day two of Snark Week! I'm actually having some fun with these posts.  I want to thank  Rachel from over at Parajunkee for hosting this great challenge.  I'm loving it so far.

Today's Top is...

Feeding Frenzy! The Top Ten List of Worst Books You’ve Ever Read

So let me see, I have a few that will be on this list, but not sure I can come up with 10, but we shall see I guess.

1. Revealing Eden by Victoria Foyt
2. The Only Way To Paradise by G.G. Vandagriff 
3. Fairy Senses by Frances Ruiz 
4. The Stolen Kingdom by Ross Rosenfeld (Total rip off of Harry Potter, almost to the point of actually writing it exactly like it.)
5. Woe is Oz by Ethan Tarshish (Review for this coming soon)
6. The Jinson Twins by Steven L. Zeichner 
7. The Story of Us by Deb Caletti (I really wanted to love this book but didn't) 
8. The Mongaliao by Neal Stephenson 
9. A Wedding Invitation by Alice J. Wisler 
10. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (Please don't kill me for this) 

 That was really hard to come up with all of those.  Some of these I have reviewed, some I haven't. The one I hate the most is number 1 on this list. 

Snark Week: Snark Attack! Day 1

It's here! Snark Week has begun and today's post is called Snark Attack. 

Snark Attack! Tell us how you really feel about a particular blogging subject. Let it off your chest. This is your chance to just EXPLODE!

 Alright, I'm not usually one to just Snark off so this should be a different type of post for me and the blog and I really hope no one takes offense to what I'm about to say.  We all have our way of doing things and we all have our opinions and I guess that means I'm entitled to mine as well.  So here goes nothing.

Lately I've seen a lot of blogs/bloggers that the only thing they post is blog tours.  To me that's not book blogging, that's coping and pasting something that someone else wrote.  Yes I post blog tours, but that's not all I post.  I miss the good ol days in the blogging community where we talked about things and we posted fun posts, not the same blog tour on every blog.

I only post one to two blog tours a month, I have in the past raised it to four in one month, but that was when I was running my own blog tour company.  I'm just saying it shouldn't be the only thing you post on your blog if you are a book blogger.

Again I hope I didn't offend anyone with this post, but this is what Snark Week is all about I guess.  I also hope you all had a great weekend and have a great week.