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How To Get Honest Book Reviews Readers trust book reviews because they are generally written by ordinary readers like themselves.

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Most readers have three main review sources for making a decision about a book: Amazon, Goodreads, and fellow readers whose opinions they trust.

While a lot of reviewers write to help themselves remember what they read or to tell other readers about the book (good or bad), the book reviews that help indie authors are the ones posted where readers will ultimately make their purchasing decision — or where the readers go for trusted opinions.

And they especially help readers when the reviews are posted where they're making the purchase — or go for recommendations from trusted sources.

Number one: readers don't trust those reviews.

Echoing what others have said, if this is an author's first book and they don't have strong reviews by trusted readers or a significant sample of their work available, I'll be hard pressed to pay more than $ 2.99.

Between the mysterious disappearing act that happens quite often with reviews posted to Amazon, the widespread news of authors buying favorable reviews from pay - per - star services, and the scandalous situation with author and reviewer bullying, reading consumers have had a hard time trusting any sort of reader feedback on a book.

Besides, trust your readers enough to be able to tell a valid review — one that actually read your book and put some consideration into the review — from the ones who just like to troll indie books to give them negative reviews.

I think this is because literary fiction readers depend heavily on reviews from trusted sources like The New Yorker, the TLS, and the NY Times.

I guess my overall recommendation would be to use those sites to post maybe a chapter or so to find compatible critique partners / beta readers (which could then move to email), but not to post our whole story for review / editing that way unless we trust everyone who has access.

Kirkus serves the book reviews to consumers in a weekly email newsletter and on Kirkus.com, giving readers unbiased, critical recommendations they can trust.

It's a sad state of affairs, and I can only hope that the self - published authors who are giving other authors bad reviews will eventually learn that readers usually don't trust books that get nothing but perfect reviews, and that, since their sales ranking on Amazon, at least, is very low, they're not selling any books anyway and they'll stop trying to be authors.

Readers won't pay attention to a big shot magazine review nearly as much as they will to a blogger they relate to, whose reviews they trust.

As a reader I trust none of their reviews or popularity meters.

And while there are fewer options for literary reviews today because so many publications have folded, reviews by trusted pros at media sources still carry more weight than reader reviews.

Bloggers often have large, loyal followings who trust their reviews much more than a random reader on Amazon.

In the absence of mainstream book reviews — and those easily manipulated by readers — IR's curated reviews will make it possible for readers to find a trusted rating system for self - published titles.

Fortunately, it's possible to make a good impression and build trust through a few key signifiers: professional cover, professional copy, professional website, professional reviews, strong reader reviews, etc..

Now, if readers think they can't trust reviews of our books, we're even more disadvantaged.

Withholding negative, non-vindictive and honest reviews or only posting them where many purchasers would never see them (Goodreads) is dishonest and serves to diminish readers» trust in reviewers and reviews.

Or why we have reader reviews online, yet don't trust them?

(If your readers agree with the paid reviews that got them to read the book, will their positive reactions to the book suddenly shift if they discover the reviews they trusted weren't natural?

It has to build trust, attract the right readers, and get them to sign up for a free offer or sell a book well enough to get strangers to take a chance on it (with lots of reviews, an excerpt, and amazing cover, etc).

The Wirecutter's biggest commodity is engendering the trust of your readers in your reviews.

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