bound galleys / advance readers' ...

Keystone Digital Press can handle all of your bound galley needs. We realize the sometimes critical timing of getting bound galleys to reviewers and we strive to meet those deadlines

Galleys—review copies, need to be sent out for review approximately three to six months in advance (depending on the media) of your publication date, because that is roughly the lead time needed by the media to get reviewers, set the review in type, proof and edit it, print it, and mail it out to subscribers.
Reviewers are not like regular readers. They are not used to reading finished books. They read galleys or uncorrected page proofs. They deal in what is "news" in their world—forthcoming books. And they want to tell their subscribers about them so the subscribers can buy what interests them.

Who should review copies be sent to?

We recommend that review copies be sent to Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Choice. Reviews and listings in these prestigious "trade" publications are seen by thousands of journalists, other prospective reviewers, library book buyers, bookstores, schools, literary associations, as well as the reading public.

Review copies should also be sent to large-circulation newspapers and magazines: the New York Times Review of Books, the Washington Post Book World, the Miami Herald, the L.A. Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Detroit Free Press, the Chicago Tribune, the Denver Post, Newsweek, Time and People.

One third of your review copies (or more) should be sent to publications whose scope includes the subject of your work. A chronicle of the development of supersonic aircraft, for example, should be sent to Aviation History Magazine, while Sports Illustrated might be inclined to review your biography of a famous athlete, and Architectural Digest your study of Victorian restoration techniques.

Jacket or cover comments often come from sources who read your uncorrected galley proof or duplicate manuscript of the text—get that copy in the reviewers' hands well before you have finished books, or you will not get reviews. And you will not sell your books in anywhere near the numbers you should. And book clubs operate very much the same way—six months' lead-time, necessitating sending them galley or page proofs, not finished books. The fact is, good reviews or comments about your book on the back cover or dust jacket...sell books!

A typical galley cover might have a banner across the front reading: 'Advance Uncorrected Proofs—Not For Sale'. The back cover will have the publication information: