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= Foreword Reviews = Launching in the late 1990's, Foreword Reviews is a website which features quality reviews of independently published books to wholesalers and distributors. It's mission is to help booksellers and librarians discover more books from indie presses. Their main claim is that they are trying to be independent, and they are advocating for freedom of thought, multiculturalism, religious diversity, and understanding.

History
In the 90's all the attention was given to large corporate publishers. Indie presses were rarely covered by Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus, Booklist, and School Library Journal. In fact, during publishing conferences like the Independent Book Publishing Association and PubWest, review personnel from these magazines often openly discouraged audience members from sending their books in for review. Soon after their debut, some of the most prestigious literary presses started to get coverage in Publishers Weekly and the other magazines. Some of these presses included Milkweed, Grove Atlantic, Algonquin for fiction and Sourcebooks, Workman, Amacom and some university presses for nonfiction. Not surprisingly, after budgets at the big-five publishers started drying up, and after years of seeing Foreword  supported by the very presses they were ignoring, the industry review journals started to cover indies with more flourish.

Reviews
Among others, they feature reviews in genres like literary fiction, poetry, children’s picture books, and translations. Foreword's reviews are lenghty, insightful and robust critiques rather than annotated summaries of books. The reviews focus on topics like climate change, diversity, and multiculturalism. They are also striving to feature unheard - or even silenced - opininons and voices in their works.

Funding
Foreword Reviews is primarily founded by advertising revenues with additional revenue coming from their review service called Clarion