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NetGalley vs. Edelweiss Poll Results

Well folks, it’s been about a week since I had my NetGalley vs. Edelweiss poll and the results are definitely in.  I asked you which galley site you prefer: NetGalley, Edelweiss, both or neither.  The overwhelming majority of you (71%) favoured NetGalley while only 14% favoured Edelweiss over NetGalley.  Meanwhile, another approximately 14% of people liked both equally.  What was really interesting was the comments section, though.

In the comments section I found out that people liked the different sites for different reasons:

NetGalley:

  • Very easy to navigate
  • Easy to request books
  • Keeps track of statistics

Edelweiss:

  • Some more exclusive publishers
  • No self-published books
  • Does not keep track of statistics

One of the interesting things I found was that some people like that NetGalley keeps track of your review ratio (which I personally love) while others hated NetGalley because of that.  Those people preferred Edelweiss because it doesn’t track statistics so you are more willing to take chances on unknown books and not have to review them.  (Personally if I can’t review a book I just leave a little note in the ‘Feedback’ category on the book to that effect but I can understand the other side of the argument.)

Basically more people liked NetGalley because it’s easier to navigate but everyone who preferred Edelweiss liked it because it gives you access to books and publishers that NetGalley doesn’t.  It essentially comes down to personal preference with publishers and types of books as well as a willingness to sit down and figure the crazy layout that is the Edelweiss site.

Me, I’m still going to stick to NetGalley but thank you guys so much for sharing your thoughts about both galley sites.

Poll: NetGalley vs. Edelweiss

This is just a random poll to see which way to get ARCs and other galleys you guys like the most.  Personally, I’m a NetGalley fan because I find Edelweiss incomprehensible and impossible to navigate but I know everyone doesn’t feel this way.  Feel free to chime in in the comments section!

Discussion: NetGalley

For those of you that don’t know, NetGalley is a site where publishers and authors put ebooks (usually ARCs, but they don’t have to be) to be requested by reviewers.  Us reviewers fill out a profile containing our blogging information like our statistics and what we review and then we request these books.  Sometimes you get accepted, sometimes you don’t.  Since I hit 1,000 followers I don’t usually get turned down, but then again I’m very picky about what I request and I read their criteria for reviewers.

I’ve always found NetGalley’s user interface clean, simple and easy to use.  Edelweiss was an absolute nightmare when I tried to sign up after using NetGalley for so long.  Seriously people, how do you use that site with tiny writing, no logical order and pretty much zero instructions?  Unless they’ve vastly improved it, I doubt I will ever use my Edelweiss profile.  NetGalley is enough for me at this point.

But what I want to know now is this: If you’re a reviewer, do you use NetGalley?  What are your experiences like on there?  If you don’t use NetGalley, why not?

And, if you’re an author or a publishing professional, are your books on NetGalley?  Why or why not?  If so, what are your experiences on it like?