REVIEW Submission Guidelines
In every issue (and regularly on our website), we feature reviews of the latest books, music CDs, and giftware for the body-mind-spirit industry. Would you like your product to be one of them? Please follow the steps below to ensure your book, CD, or giftware item is given full consideration by our team of independent reviewers.
Steps to getting reviewed in Retailing Insight
Make sure your product meets the following criteria for consideration in the magazine:
- The product must be available for sale to retailers in the U.S. at wholesale prices, whether it is distributed through your company or through a wholesale distributor.
- The product must be new. For music and giftware, it should be no more than 6 months old. For books, we work ahead of the publication date by as much as 5 months, so we need to hear about your book as early as possible, but at the least 2 months before the publication date.
- Submit a form to the appropriate reviewer to tell them about your product.
BOOKS
Submit this form to our book reviewer Anna Jedrziewski. Include key information such as publisher (and wholesale distributor if that's the only U.S. wholesale outlet), publication date, publicity contact, book description or synopsis, and information about the author.
MUSIC
Submit this form to our music reviewer Bill Binkelman with information about your CD. Key information to include is album title and description, artist name and brief bio, label name and website, and wholesale distribution info.
GIFTWARE
Submit this form to our giftware reviewer and editor-at-large Jean Haller. Provide key information such as a description of the product, selling features, vendor name and contact information, wholesale price, and a link to the vendor website. A photo of the product is not required, but is appreciated.
If the reviewer you've contacted is interested in reviewing your product, they will email you back* with instructions on where to send a sample or review copy.
Please do not send unsolicited products to our corporate office or directly to any reviewer; these submissions will not be considered and may be returned unopened.
*We do our best to respond to all review requests—and every request is given full consideration—but due to the volume of email we receive, we cannot directly inform those who have not been selected for review. If you haven't received a response within 15 business days, it is likely your product was not selected for review. However, if you would like confirmation, feel free to send a follow-up email to the appropriate reviewer to request a reply.
Please note: Our readers count on our independent and honest assessment of new products, and while we welcome product submissions from our advertisers, we give no preference to advertisers during the evaluation process.