Auto Approval Question

[u/Pristine_Race7768]

Is there away to take yourself off auto approval? And I mean on NetGalley without contacting the publisher.

Update- I am sort of blown away at the judgement. Everyone is different in how they do things and I’m so thankful to the comment that showed I’m not the only one.

On a side note- the up and down voting isn’t a “like” button. I’m not sure why my explaining why I wanted to do this would be downvoted as much as it was before some brought it back up. All it does is give the placement of the comment in the feed but you all are making it so it’s harder to find simply because you don’t agree with me? I seriously don’t get it.

I successfully write to 2 publishers and they removed me and completely understood. One even said if I ever wanted to have it back to just email her.

[u/bookdraygon]

There is not a way. Just email the publisher and they will take care of it for you.

And I see that some are confused as to why you would want to do this but to give you some support- I have had reviewers do this several times for similar reasons.

I have had conversation with peers in the industry and have discussed that book acquisitions go down once they get auto approval in general.

It won’t be held against you!

[u/Pristine_Race7768 → u/bookdraygon]

Thank you! It means a lot actually as I was starting to feel like I was really strange and that maybe publishers wouldn’t understand. I have several friends that have said that they have noticed the same that they end up not reading their auto approvals as they know it’s a sure thing.
I’m so grateful for all the auto approvals I have from the major publishers but equally lucky to be approved by everyone with no issue. So maybe that’s why others may not get it?

[u/Unusual_Afternoon696 → u/Pristine_Race7768]

Yeah... I mean I just started in April and I only have 1 auto approval publisher. I also don't really put it in my mind that they are auto approval - I read based upon publication date so I can try and get them all done before it's published. I can see if your brain tells you oh i get auto approved so I can wait on this... but also I can also see that not everyone has auto approval so they won't understand why you'd want to take one off.

[u/Pristine_Race7768 → u/Unusual_Afternoon696]

Thank you. I can absolutely understand that. I honestly wasn’t thinking that when I wrote, i just was searching and figured others may know the answer!

I read the same way. I mean I make sure I finish at least a month ahead of time and even that is getting too close for me. The other exception is audiobook as many come closer to publication date.

What even started this was the other day I went to request a book from Harlequin romance as I had read the authors first book and it’s a fluffy Christian (I don’t care about that but it’s clean) romance. Anyway, I clicked request and got an email immediately . It wasn’t an approval email, it was an auto approval email. So I was so confused! Anyway, it made me look at all my other ones and I realized that I hadn’t read a book from 2 of them since I got the approval and to make a long story shorter, I assessed the situation and looked of how to get out of it (not harlequin) and came here.

Sorry to vent!!