I have occasionally mentioned a book or two on my blog. As for how to get review copies: if people want to send something to you, then it takes a negligible amount of time to accept graciously and give your postal mail address. (Particularly if you use something like DirectAccess and have a macro for your postal address.)
If not, you have a problem: your time as a small businessman is worth $100 an hour, or more. (If you're not used to your time being worth that much you need to readjust your expectations even if you're not making that much yet, because it helps to concentrate your efforts on things that matter as opposed to things that do not.)
And if your time is worth $100 an hour, what the heck are you doing spending precious minutes of your time arranging to save money on an $8 or $25 or whatever book.
Every second of time spent longer than "Search for book on Amazon, Buy-With-One-Click" is time you are not improving your business. I'm darn good at writing letters to get things that I want, but there is no way for me to make one-off writing pay at $8 a page. (Now if it were writing on the blog or business website that actually scaled out of direct proportion to time invested, that would be a decent use of time.)
If not, you have a problem: your time as a small businessman is worth $100 an hour, or more. (If you're not used to your time being worth that much you need to readjust your expectations even if you're not making that much yet, because it helps to concentrate your efforts on things that matter as opposed to things that do not.)
And if your time is worth $100 an hour, what the heck are you doing spending precious minutes of your time arranging to save money on an $8 or $25 or whatever book.
Every second of time spent longer than "Search for book on Amazon, Buy-With-One-Click" is time you are not improving your business. I'm darn good at writing letters to get things that I want, but there is no way for me to make one-off writing pay at $8 a page. (Now if it were writing on the blog or business website that actually scaled out of direct proportion to time invested, that would be a decent use of time.)