Reading Addiction Virtual Book Tours / Reading Addiction Book Blog Tours Waste OF Money Book Blog Tour Company. Worst Book Blog Tour Company - Not Near The Best Book Blog Tour Company Washington DC Internet

There are many book blog tour companies out there now, and a wide range of prices. Reading Addiction Virtual Book Tours is on the lower end of the price range, which makes it appealing to indie authors who are wanting to promote but operating within a very tight, very limited budget.

I am not an indie author, but a publicist, and I placed 5 books on 5 different book blog tour companies. All had the same number of stops (30), but Reading Addiction Virtual Book Tours is the only company I felt I was so mislead by that it warranted a Rip-Off Report.

I paid for the Major Addiction tour which trumpeted 30 stops over 6 weeks, with 10-15 reviews. This was for an award-winning YA dystopian novel. While this is subjective, compared to the quality of books placed with other tour companies, I would rank this particular novel #2 out of the 5.

These were the biggest issues with Reading Addiction:

1. More than half of the blog sites hosting stops were either very obviously run by Reading Addiction or were sites that ONLY hosted Reading Addiction blog tours. Their tour hosts had little to no other content besides Reading Addiction Virtual posts. I don't think it needs to be pointed out that book blogs with nothing but content from a single tour company (or only content from tour companies in general) are suspect.

2. Out of the 10-15 review stops, there were—in actuality—only 7 bloggers selected the book for a review. Out of those 7, 2 never posted their reviews (and were never heard from, meaning the tour days were lost). Out of the other 5, only a single blogger cross posted onto Amazon. SO, out of 10-15 review stops advertised, there were only 5 completed and only 1 that made it off a hosts blog site.

3. Reading Addiction is really disorganized. It was left up to me to check the stops daily and to notify them when a committed post on the tour wasn't made. Sometimes it was posted within an hour or two after, sometimes it wasn't at all. Worst of all, when it was NOT posted for the day I never heard back from Reading Addiction. This was frequent. Nearly ¼ of the scheduled stops weren't posted until I inquired about them. Not that it makes much difference (see #1).

There are other issues, but these should be enough to discourage authors and publicists from using Reading Addiction Virtual Book Tours. The other 4 companies I worked with all commented on stops along the way (which showed they were clearly checking for posts themselves), all had a variety of quality book blogs with both organic and tour content, and all maintained the advertised number of reviews with excellent cross-posting on both Amazon and Goodreads.

The bottom line: My Reading Addiction Virtual Book Tours is bad for the bottom line. Save your money and don't get ripped off like I did.