NEW TOURS - NEW RULES!

Hello dear participants!

As new, exciting and fabulous tours are about to start, me,Reggie and Mavie feel like we should set some new guidelines and rules concerning the tours. We had and still have a really hard time organising the previous tours and keeping track of the books and we want to make it a little easier for us and of course you, as the tours will run more smoothly. Mind you, many of the previous tours got canceled and regrettably so, because there where a lot of people who wanted to read the books and they either got lost in the mail or participants just stopped caring.So, I hope with the new rules, everything will be settled and we could have a little bit more fun and a little bit less worrying. :)

Here we go:

1. Before you sign up for any tours, you must fill out the Sign Up Form and provide us with your personal info(home address,email etc)
2. Tracking number is mandatory from now own.Every participant must provide one when they send a book to the next person in line.However, if your country's post doesn't support it or you have to pay extra for it, you are not obligated to provide one.You should ask your local post office about that.
3. People who are not willing or able to ship internationally, cannot participate! IBT is all about International tours and people who cannot get their hands on ARCs any other way.It is very important to them and so it's very important to us.We always try to group people from the same country together but at some point, you just have to send the book to someone who is not from your country, especially if you participate in many of the tours.There are a lot of US and Canadian residents - only tours you can participate, if you are not willing to pay for international shipping, which is completely understandable.
4. Participants must send me an email telling me the day the received the book and the day it was sent out.I just cannot ask each one of you separately if you received it or shipped it, or check your In My Mailbox posts each week!It's unbelievably time -consuming and unnecessary. It only takes a second, you guys!
5. The time each participant is allowed to have the book in his/her possession and send it to the next person is 7 days.I think 7 days is more than enough as a lot of people can read two, sometimes three books a week.Of course, there can be a time extension if a personal problem occurs(we are human,after all!) but then the book MUST be sent to the next person in line.

...and last but not least:

READ THE TOUR RULES BEFORE YOU SIGN UP FOR ANY OF THE TOURS. It is very crucial you read, follow, and cooperate with IBT rules.

Thank you very much for your cooperation!

Guidelines and Rules

Rules/Guidelines:

-You must read the book in a timely manner. We will give you a time limit of one week. Please remember that there are people still on the tour waiting for their turn to read and review the book.

-You must mail out the book ASAP after reading it. This means the book is in your possession for a total of one week; you have to read and mail the book in that one week.

-Please try your best to not damage the book while it is in your possession. Don't rip the pages, fold them, etc.. We don't want the book to be torn up into pieces to person number nine on the tour.

-You must be able to ship anywhere no matter how expensive it will be. Yes, shipping is very expensive but remember, people pay the same amount to send the book to you. This may seem a bit too harsh/strict but you must send the book through airmail. We need the book to circulate fast, especially when the book isn't released and when the book is close to being released. Only sign up for tours if you can afford it. This is the only downside to this arrangement.

-You must have an active book blog or an active goodreads account to join all tours.

-You must review the book within one week after you have read it. You must post it on Goodreads and/or your blog/site. Please remember to put International Book Tours somewhere in your post.

-You must post the link to your review in the Mr. Linky under each post. Please post it no later than one week after mailing the book.

You are out of all tours if:

-If you mail a book and it gets lost two times in your possession. (We are sorry but we have to be really strict about this part, we have no way of proof that you have sent the book. Not a lot of countries are like the U.S. who have tracking numbers.)

-If you mail a book late two times.

-If you do not read the book in one week three times.

-If you damage (as in not readable anymore) a book.