Sentences with phrase «fake book reviews»

Fake book reviews are rampant on Amazon.

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Amazon is heading to court again, trying to wipe out more fake product reviews for books and products posted on Amazon.com.

In a move that can easily be categorized under «omg it's about freakin'time» (considering Amazon posted its first - ever book review twenty years ago), the largest bookstore in the world has finally taken the first steps in combating fake reviews by suing three pay - for - review sites that operate out of California.

Lastly, the only dangerous situation that is being caused is by the people who believe they have a right to «don» a fake persona, and rabidly attack others on - line, simply because they have a point of view that someone doesn't like, or as on GoodReads they break the pseudo-golden rule of making a comment, any comment on one of their own book reviews.

John Lott used the fake persona of Mary Rosh to anonymously defend his own work and post reviews of his book More Guns, Less Crime [2].

There are so many fake reviews on sites like Goodreads (both 5 and 1 star) that it's hardly a system to be trusted, and even when only professional reviewers reviewed books, it was still the opinion of someone I don't know.

Right now Amazon is cracking down on book reviews from fake sources and family and friends, so it's even more important that your review outreach strategy is solid and that you have enough reviews — 10 - 20 — before you start marketing and promoting your book.

Or they assume that those other 168 reviews are misleading and fake and this one 3 star review is most honest because it has been voted most helpful, by about 25 people who didn't read the book.

News stories included Amazon's fake review lawsuit, three recent seven - figure publishing deals for indies, the luck factor of publishing, the reasoning behind Oyster's new online book store, and the traditionally published author survey.

Although Amazon is on the right track, and of course you don't want fake or misleading book reviews (because they lead to MORE negative reviews from disappointed readers), as a professional author you also need to do what you can to counteract Amazon's overzealous review removal policies.

As well as writing five - star reviews to help boost sales, these fake book reviewers can also offer to fabricate negative posts for individuals and businesses in an attempt to sabotage rival authors and books.

Perhaps the article isn't sending the not - too - subtle message that indie authors suck, thus their reviews must be fake, or at least suspect, thus the only way to save yourself the grief is to buy trad pub books, which have paid reviews from the shills who do it for a living... er... never mind.

Pajiba notes that the Amazon and Goodreads reviews for the book are also deeply questionable, inconsistent with usual reviewing patterns and highly likely to be fake.

Goodreads is based on fake ratings and reviews, it's API is corrupt and defrauds consumers with false data about books which in turn has a negative impact on sales and search placement.

Claims of fake reviews, plots to buy your own book in bulk to manipulate the sales numbers, and an overgrowth of companies that sell guaranteed increases in rankings have basically spoiled the system for everyone, from the most talented but undiscovered writer to the most supportive reader who can't find the great books in an ocean of titles.

The site is referring to fake reviews that were left strictly due to the author's political affiliation rather than anything to do with the book.

But it begs the question: If a minor albeit prolific author like me who garners only a few reviews (if that) per book can be labeled as inviting fake reviews (I don't), how harmful could Amazon's (and ReviewMeta's and Fakespot's) bovine excrement algorithms be to authors with hundreds of reviews?

Is a book buyer going to sue Locke for the 99 cents they spent because of a fake review?

One tip - off to fake reviews is when a book has a large number of five - star reviews coupled with an extremely low sales - rank, or no sales rank at all.

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But what about all the «fake» Amazon book reviews penned by authors» competitors and those with an axe to grind — reviews intended to damage the rating of a book?

As someone on the outside of this whole situation looking in, I have to wonder, how can one or two or five «maybe fake» reviews of a book be any more important than the forty or fifty or sixty or more other, legitimate reviews?

Fake reviews are an issue for all types of products sold on Amazon, not just books, but I have been monitoring author reaction to this development in particular.

Fake reviews are a problem for sellers and buyers, whether they're reviews that have been bought or reviews by trolls who haven't read the book but are on some kind of destructive mission.

While we will largely focus on how these reviews affect Kindle and paperback books, this lawsuit is against fake reviews for every product.

For example, his book «How I Sold 1 Million eBooks in 5 Months» contains a number of fake reviews, and you can find them in many of his other books.

As a result of allowing fake reviews and ratings on books that have not been bought or read the APIs from both goodreads and Amazon are complete frauds.

I can sort of understand the logic, you don't want writers who know each other writing fake good reviews, and you don't want spiteful writers writing mean reviews just to make another writer's book look bad, but I think Amazon needs to give more credit than that to writers as a group.

Amazon has laid out five arbitration demands in a complaint filed with the American Arbitration Association (obtained by TechCrunch, see below), accusing the involved parties of offering services to boost the number of pages read in books, fraudulent customer reviews, creating fake user accounts to download e-books and inflate the numbers and other schemes to boost the amount of royalties authors and publishers were able to pull from Amazon's self - publishing platform.

• You don't tell reviewers what to say or how to rate your book • They're free to say whatever they want, including something negative • Early readers aren't your personal best friends • Don't post any fake reviews by pretend people, or encourage anyone to do that for you

Naturally, I started with my own books, as I can be pretty sure there are no fake reviews there, being the author, publisher, and marketer of all these titles, and someone who is fastidious about the rules as my name is literally my brand.

The idea of stealing another writer's words or trying to discredit them or falsifying reviews or trying to have people write fake reviews of my work sounds crazy to me, but I am guilty of highlighting the parts of the PW review that I liked most about my most recent book; it was a mixed review bc the reviewer thought the novel had too many coincidences / was too neatly wrapped up at the end, but that's one of my signatures, I think, now that I've written three books, two published, and one in the works, so I'm actually proud of the strange kismet, sometimes magical occurrences that happen in my work because they also happen in my life, and that's what this whole post is about: about being true to oneself, which includes a moral code, a writers and human code of ethics.

They're not like the companies that fake hundreds of positive reviews — instead they want to give you a professional, well - constructed critique of your book that'll be miles more impressive and noteworthy than anything you can find on the standard Amazon page.

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I may give my book away to normal people in exchange for a review, but I want them to give their real reactions to my book, not fake ones.

This is when authors leave reviews... good or bad... with multiple identities and fake names to either promote their own books or sabotage other authors.

Meanwhile, publishing tongues were wagging this week in the wake of a NY Times article about the (apparently very lucrative) world of fake online book reviews:

«I'm glad she liked it,» the guy who used to sell fake reviews says about the reviewer of his own book.

And they're, like, «But you write fake reviews for books that probably suck!»

Kayl's book Dragonsoul received many fake one - star reviews from other angry authors calling him a «scammer.»

And you can't fake it very long: if your book sucks, readers won't like it and you'll get terrible reviews, even if you do have a great cover.

I reviewed (and LOVED) her first book The Truth About Faking, and was lucky enough to beta read The Truth About Letting Go — ... Read More

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It's a violation of the Terms of Service to attempt to artificially inflate a book's review rankings by creating sock puppet accounts to leave fake reviews, or hiring or bartering with others to do the same.

In the UK store a fake reviewer hit me and a group of other books with a one star on the same day and identical ambiguous review «rubbish» and amazon stated each reader is entitled to an opinion.

Like you, I'd prefer everything I earn to be honest and true, and I'd feel like crap if I knew people were buying my book because of fake and purchased reviews.

Paid book reviews — it is assumed — are automatically untrustworthy, false, fake, misleading, and just pure evil.

These methods can flag your account as being full of fake reviews and your book can suffer.

If you pull in the wrong reader, or use fake positive reviews for a terrible book, your book is going to fail irrevocably, because you're setting yourself up to attract negative reviews that will kill your book sales forever.

Readers won't feel tricked or betrayed if they truly enjoyed the book and weren't mislead (paid or fake reviews don't have to be bullshit.