Read & Reckon
Credibility you can actually point at
A book with nine reviews and a book with ninety are read differently by every retailer's algorithm and by every reader deciding in four seconds. Read & Reckon builds the second kind — slowly, from readers who bought the book.
What we do
The work, and what it costs
Verified review drive
Fifty readers matched to the book by what they already read and rate.
- Reader matching by genre history
- Purchase verified before posting
- Retail and Goodreads coverage
- No script, no rating floor
Trade review mailing
Physical proofs to the critics and trade outlets that still move a book.
- 60 outlets, chosen per title
- Printed advance copies
- Follow-up and clipping service
Awards submission
The prizes your book is actually eligible for, entered correctly and on time.
- Eligibility audit
- Entry preparation and fees managed
- Deadline tracking across 40+ prizes
How it works
Four steps, in this order
Match
Readers are picked from what they have already read and rated, not from a panel that reviews anything.
Verify
The purchase is confirmed before a review is eligible. This is the whole difference.
Wait
People read at the speed people read. A drive runs eight to twelve weeks and cannot be rushed.
Report
Every review, including the two-star ones, with no request to have any of them removed.
We cannot promise you five stars
A drive that guaranteed a rating would be buying opinions, which is the thing this division exists not to do. What is guaranteed is fifty matched readers who bought the book. If a third of them dislike it, that is information about the book, and you paid to find it out from readers rather than from sales.
Talk to Read & Reckon
A verified review programme: real readers, matched to the book, who confirm the purchase before they post. Slower than the alternative and the only kind worth having.