Subject Lines

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About half of the queries we receive have the subject line: "Review Request".

Yes, from the authors point of view they are sending a review request.

But from the reviewer's point of view they are being offered a book.

Organizationally, it would really help if folks put the book title in the subject line.

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DED said…
For point of reference, we require authors to put "Submission: Book Title" in the subject line. We have an auto reply that targets the word "submission" so that authors know we've received their request for a review. It also helps us to know if people actually went to our "Submission Guidelines" page and read it rather than blindly sending us stuff we don't want. Quite a number of people still don't.
3:43 PM
veinglory said…
Indeed. We have an email address used only for these queries and everything sent there gets the auto-reply. But when it comes to later handling a book title in the subject line really helps.
3:55 PM
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