Midwest Book Review, established in 1976, produces nine book-review publications per month.

[17] It has a motivation of increasing literacy, public utilization of libraries, and fostering small press, to which it gives priority.

[19][20] A visitor to the website Amazon.com emailed Cox in 2006 and asked about the organization's practice of giving all reviews posted to the site a five-star recommendation.

"[22] In a 2001 interview with The Denver Post, Cox stated that Midwest Book Review considers submissions from print on demand (POD) publications.

Initially fees were only charged for e-books, but since then has expanded to include any "ebooks, pre-publication manuscripts, galleys, uncorrected proofs, ARCs, and pdf files".

[16] Midwest Book Review is listed as a resource, in Doris Booth's Writer's Handbook of FAQs.

[30] In Book Design and Production, author Pete Masterson listed the organization as a resource.

[31] Mayra Calvani of Blogcritics noted that the organization is "popular among small publishers, self-published authors, and academic presses".