You work hard for several years writing a book. You luck out and get it published by a reputable university or commercial press. So far, so good. The folks at the press will automatically send out review copies to the couple dozen most appropriate journals and magazines in your book's field, right? Wrong. As review editor for a couple years during the mid-seventies for a leading magazine {Society, formerly transaction) and for the last few years for a scholarly journal in military sociology and

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... international affairs (Armed Forces and Society), I've discovered something that surprised me and that book-writers should be made aware of: publishers aren't automatically sending out review copies of their (your, our!) books. Not unless you (we) urge them and nag them to do so.